His cheeks, smooth as a girl's, were touched with color.

The blue eyes seemed more cloudily blue than usual, and the crisp, sandy hair hinted more than ever of the pale straw-gold that was not there.

Never had she seen him quite so royally young.

As he smiled to greet her, with a slow white flash of teeth from between red lips, she caught again the promise of easement and rest.

Fresh from the shattering chaos of her sister-in-law's mind, Billy's tremendous calm was especially satisfying, and Saxon mentally laughed to scorn the terrible temper he had charged to himself.
She had been buggy-riding before, but always behind one horse, jaded, and livery, in a top-buggy, heavy and dingy, such as livery stables rent because of sturdy unbreakableness.