Hilda agreed, only insisting that, as the liability was incurred in her defence, she ought to be allowed to discharge it—a proposal which was laughed to scorn.
“You see, now, what might have happened during that little moonlight stroll of yours,” Raynier went on. “And I don’t think you’d find these brutes so ready to turn tail as that panther was. By the way, I daresay you’d rather turn back now?”
“Of course not. Why?”
“Only that you must have seen enough of the interesting Gularzai at close quarters for one day.”
“Then I haven’t,” she answered gaily. “I wouldn’t give up this visit to a real native magnate for the world.”
“It was well done, Mehrab Khan,” said Raynier, in Pushtu. “Thy stroke was a worthy one, strong and swift.”
And the Baluchi, proud and pleased, murmured his thanks.