"Excuse my fatherly familiarity, but how can you afford to gad with those wild asses?"
"I can't."
"What's her name?" Tait laughed.
"I may be able to tell you later, and I may not."
"Well, my boy, I don't know who she is, but I bet she isn't worth it—not if she trails with the Enslee pack."
"Oh, but she is beautiful—she is wonderful."
"You must be hit damned hard."
"Am."
And then, not heeding the connotation, he exclaimed, as Persis emerged from the eclipsing shrubbery:
"There's only one woman can ride like that."