"I'm staying there at this time."
"You—came for me?" Apparently she had expected someone to come.
But instead of answering, he put a question of his own. "To whom were you talking just now? I could hear you."
"I—I said the words. The words my faith——" She broke off, wretchedly, and Lanark was forced to think how pretty she was in her confusion. "The words that Persil Mandifer told me to say." Her eyes on his, she continued softly: "I came to meet the Nameless One. Are you the—Nameless One?"
"Are you the Nameless One?"
"I am certainly not nameless," he replied. "I am Lieutenant Lanark, of the Federal Army of the Frontier, at your service." He bowed slightly, which made it more formal. "Now, come along with me."
He took her by the wrist, which shook in his big left hand. Together they went back eastward through the ravine, in the direction of the house.