CHAPTER IX.
LOVERS.
Ambrose and Colina had had no opportunity the night before to arrange for another meeting.

Ambrose stuck close to his camp, feeling somehow that the next move should come from her.
It was not that he had been unduly alarmed by her father's threat, though he had a young man's healthy horror of being humiliated in the beloved one's presence.
But the real reason that kept him inactive was an instinctive compunction against embroiling Colina with her father.

She had only known him, Ambrose, a day; she should have a chance to make sure of her own mind, he felt.
As to what he would do if Colina made no move, Ambrose could not make up his mind.

He considered a night expedition to the fort; he considered sending a message by Tole.

Either plan had serious disadvantages.