I suppose they can land easily here ?" "Didn't you yourself land here just now ?" she said quickly.
He half hesitated, and then, as if scorning an equivocation, made a hasty gesture over her shoulder and said bluntly, "No, I came over the cliff." "Down the cliff ?" she repeated incredulously.
"Yes," he said, glancing at his clothes; "it was a rough scramble, but the goats showed me the way." "And you were up on the bluff all the time ?" she went on curiously.
"Yes.

You see--I"-- he stopped suddenly at what seemed to be the beginning of a prearranged and plausible explanation, as if impatient of its weakness or hypocrisy, and said briefly, "Yes, I was there." Like most women, more observant of his face and figure, she did not miss this lack of explanation.

He was a very good-looking man of middle age, with a thin, proud, high-bred face, which in a country of bearded men had the further distinction of being smoothly shaven.

She had never seen any one like him before.

She thought he looked like an illustration of some novel she had read, but also somewhat melancholy, worn, and tired.
"Won't you come in and rest yourself ?" she said, motioning to the cabin.
"Thank you," he said, still half absently.