May I not sit down upon the leaves and talk to you for a while?
I came out to find you, you know." As he spoke, and without waiting for the permission which he asked, he crossed the rustling leaves, and threw himself down upon the earth between two branching roots.

Her skirt brushed his knee; with a movement quick and shy she put more distance between them, then stood and looked at him with wide, grave eyes.

"Why do you say that you came here to find me ?" she asked.

"I do not know you." Haward laughed, nursing his knee and looking about him.

"Let that pass for a moment.