She almost hated Ferdy Wickersham for having spoken of the place as Keith told her he had spoken.
When Keith reached home that evening he had a wholly new feeling for the girl with whom accident had so curiously thrown him.

He was really in love with her.

Hitherto he had allowed himself merely to drift with the pleasant tide that had been setting in throughout these last weeks.

But the phases that she had shown that afternoon, her spirit, her courage, her capricious rebelliousness, and, above all, that glimpse into her heart which he had obtained as she sat on the rock overlooking the wide sweep where he had had his home, and where the civilization to which it belonged had had its home, had shown him a new creature, and he plunged into love.

Life appeared suddenly to open wide her gates and flood him with her rosy light..