"Not so far but they will be at your heels ere this day's sun grow tired of shining."
"Ay, truly? They will do swift riding, then!"
"Mayhap 'twill come of their swift riding," she replied, taunted by his courteous, almost sugary, tone. "And mayhap, of your meeting hindrance!"
"Prithee, what should put hindrance in my way?" he inquired, with a most annoying pretence of polite surprise and curiosity.
"I will!" she cried. "I have run after you for that purpose!"
"God's light, say you so? And what will you do to hinder me?"
"I know not yet," she answered, with high serenity. "But I shall find a way."
"No doubt you will choose the simplest way," said Hal.
"What is that, I pray you?" she asked, quickly.