The man took him again;" and she ripped out a few more oaths and unchaste expressions, threatening what she would do for the man in question; the which delighted him more than ever.

"Rake is my horse," she ended.

"None else shall ride him." "None else ?" cried he.

"Thou canst not ride him, baggage!" She looked at him with scornful majesty.
"Where is he ?" she demanded.

And the next instant hearing the beast's restless feet grinding into the gravel outside as he fretted at having been kept waiting so long, she remembered what the stable-boy had said of having seen her favourite standing before the door, and struggling and dropping from the settle, she ran to look out; whereupon having done so, she shouted in triumph.
"He is here!" she said.