She was not reassured.

It did not seem to her that her question was directly answered.

The young man was playing with her.
"What right had you to follow me ?" she demanded fiercely.
"Well, now that you put it in that light, I'm not sure that I had any right at all, unless it may be the claim that every human being has upon all creation." His arms were folded now across his broad brown flannel chest, and the pistols gleamed in his belt below like fine ornaments.

He wore a philosophical expression, and looked at his companion as if she were a new specimen of the human kind, and he was studying her variety, quite impersonally, it is true, but interestedly.

There was something in his look that angered the girl.
"What do you want ?" She had never heard of the divine claims of all the human family.