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And there was a certain
contagiousness in the petting admiration with which her family
treated her. But she was young and healthy and so was he, and in a
second mystery lies the key of the first. He had fallen in love
with her, and that being so whatever he needed that instantly she
was. He needed a companion, clean and brave and understanding. . . .
In his bed in the Ship that night he thought of nothing but her
before he went to sleep, and when next morning he walked on his way
over the South Downs to Chichester his mind was full of her image
and of a hundred pleasant things about her. In his confessions he
wrote, "I felt there was a sword in her spirit. I felt she was as
clean as the wind."
Love is the most chastening of powers, and he did not even remember
now that two days before he had told the wind and the twilight that
he would certainly "roll and rollick in women" unless there was work
for him to do. She had a peculiarly swift and easy stride that went
with him in his thoughts along the turf by the wayside halfway and
more to Chichester.


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