What would people say?
"Dad will simply be radiant, IF he can buy Wildfire--and a fiend if he can't," she muttered.
Lucy saw that her own impulsiveness had amounted to daring.

She had gone too far.

She excused that--for she had a rider's blood--she was Bostil's girl.

But she had, in her wildness and joy and spirit, spent many hours alone with a rider, to his undoing.

She could not excuse that.