The high-backed, luxuriously upholstered seat of brown leather gave her a sense of great comfort; yet even greater, it seemed to her, was the nearness and comfort of the man himself and of his body.
"How d'ye like 'em ?" he asked, changing the reins to both hands and chirruping the horses, which went out with a jerk in an immediacy of action that was new to her.

"They're the boss's, you know.

Couldn't rent animals like them.

He lets me take them out for exercise sometimes.

If they ain't exercised regular they're a handful .-- Look at King, there, prancin'.