He had come out into the wilderness to think and to forget.

Here was ample opportunity.

There had been a little too much of it yesterday, when he wandered from the rest of his party who had come out to hunt; and for a time he had felt that he would rather be back in his native city with a good breakfast and all his troubles than to be alone in the vast waste forever.

But now there was human company, and a possibility of getting somewhere sometime.

He was content.
The lithe, slender figure of the girl ahead seemed one with the horse it rode.