"In what?"
"Never mind. But here's another thing. You know that she'll have to leave pretty soon?"
The meaning slowly filtered into David's mind.
"Benjamin," he said slowly, "you are wise in many ways, with horses and with women, it seems. But that is a fool's talk. Let me hear no more of it. Leave me? Why should she leave me?"
Triumph warmed the heart of Connor.
"Because a girl can't ramble off into the mountains and put up in a valley where there are nothing but men. It isn't done."
"Why not?"
"Isn't good form."
"I fail to understand."
"My dear fellow, she'd be compromised for life if it were known that she had lived here with us."