"Some," Bob replied. "They teach cavalry at the military college we attended last year."
"That's fine. I'm crazy about riding and we'll have one before breakfast to-morrow morning if it suits you."
"Couldn't be better," Jack assured her.
Bob and Jack both loved horses and were fairly good judges of horse flesh, and they were agreeably surprised when they saw the beautiful animals in the corral.
"What beauties," both declared in the same breath.
"We think they're pretty good," the girl said and at the sound of her voice a splendid bay mare separated herself from the rest and trotted toward her.
"This is my mare and her name is Lady," she told them as she pulled a big lump of sugar from her pocket. "Lady always expects sugar whenever she sees me," she explained.
"And I'll bet she gets it," Jack laughed.
"That's right, isn't it, Lady?" And by a gentle neigh Lady declared that it was.