In the glow of the evening air his strong manhood seemed to gain an added force and vitality.

He moved beside her, magnified and haloed, as it were, by the dusk and the sunset.

Yet his effect upon her was no mere physical effect of good looks and a fine stature.

It was rather the effect of a personality which strangely fitted with and evoked her own--of that congruity, indeed, from which all else springs.
She laughed at his confession.
"I hear also that you are the best shot in the neighborhood." "Who has been talking to you about me ?" he asked, with a slight knitting of the brows.
"Mr.Ferrier--a little." He gave an impatient sigh, so disproportionate to the tone of their conversation, that Diana looked at him in sudden surprise.
"Haven't you often wondered how it is that the very people who know you best know you least ?" The question was impetuously delivered.

Diana recalled Mr.Forbes's remarks as to dissensions behind the scenes.