"I was told I should find you up here," continued Miss Raby. "I remember you very well. You used to take us over the passes."
She watched his face intently. She did not expect it to relax into an expansive smile. "Ah!" he said, taking off his peaked cap, "I remember you perfectly, madam. What a pleasure, if I may say so, to meet you again!"
"I am pleased, too," said the lady, looking at him doubtfully.
"You and another lady, madam, was it not? Miss——"
"Mrs. Harbottle."
"To be sure; I carried your luggage. I often remember your kindness."
She looked up. He was standing near an open window, and the whole of fairyland stretched behind him. Her sanity forsook her, and she said gently: "Will you misunderstand me, if I say that I have never forgotten your kindness either?"
He replied: "The kindness was yours, madam; I only did my duty."
"Duty?" she cried; "what about duty?"
"You and Miss Harbottle were such generous ladies. I well remember how grateful I was: you always paid me above the tariff fare——"