"Let us go then," said Rorie, rising from his rugged seat.
"But I am not going to take you out of your way. Every step of my journey home takes you further from Briarwood."
"Never mind if it does. I mean to walk to the Abbey House with you. I daresay, if I were very tired, Bates would lend me a mount home."
"You can have Arion, if you like."
"No, thanks. Arion shall not have my thirteen stone; I want a little more timber under me."
"You ought to have had Bullfinch," said Vixen regretfully.
"I would have had him, if I had known he was in the market. The writing of a figure or so more or less on a cheque should not have hindered me."