The thought of him reassured her; he was no simple boy to suffer such attacks to pass unchallenged; and so, dismissing him, she raised her head and saw him gallop forth from a by-path and rein his horse beside her.
"Miss Claiborne!" The suppressed feeling in his tone made the moment tense and she saw that his lips trembled.

It was a situation that must have its quick relief, so she said instantly, in a mockery of his own tone: "Mr.Armitage!" She laughed.

"I am almost caught in the dark.

The blandishments of spring have beguiled me." He looked at her with a quick scrutiny.

It did not seem possible that this could be the girl who had called to him in warning scarce five minutes before; but he knew it had been she,--he would have known her voice anywhere in the world.