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Show desert." "Then I shall never learn them," she said, with a sort of half-childish regret. "Why not?" "Whynot? Whatanabsurdquestion!" "One can learn what one chooses to learn. I"- he spoke proudly" I have learned to be a French officer." "I really don't feel equal to learning to be an Arab woman," she ,rejoined, rather petulantly. "Besides, you know as well as I do that men can do a thousand things women can't do." " Even a woman can go a step farther," he said. "Oh-well-that's not very important. I don't mind." And she walked on. He smiled as he followed her. 38 When they came out of the gorge they were in the full flood of the moonlight. The change from the confined space of the gorge to this immensity of the desert was startling, and a sudden sense of loneliness and danger rushed upon Lady Wyverne. Abruptly she realized that this caprice of hers, besides being extremely unconventional, might be something more. She thought of "Crumpet" snoring peacefully in the hotel, and fpr the first time wished that she had not left his side. The Spahi, watching her face in the bright moonlight, read with the swift certainty of the Arab, always horribly acute in summing up the character / '> and flying thoughts of the European, / '/ I all that was passing in her mind and , I answered it in a sentence. /, "She who loves the strange must1 not fear to face it," he said, quietly. · Lady Wyverne :reddened. She was |
