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"When et back?" she asked

"I'ain broke down

Brangwen's coo on

"Art commin', Tom," they called, "or art for stoppin'?"

"Ay, I'ry

sense of futility and disappoint look of the girl, and he

trembled with unusedness

"Shall you come an' have a look at my mare," he said to her,

with his hearty kindliness that was now shaken with

trepidation

"Oh, I should like to," she said, rising

And she followed hiaiters, out of the rooot their

own horses out of the stable

"Can you ride?" Brangwen asked her

"I should like to if I could--I have never tried," she

said

"Come then, an' have a try," he said

And he lifted her, he blushing, she laughing, into the

saddle

"I s'll slip off--it's not a lady's saddle," she

cried

"Hold yer tight," he said, and he led her out of the hotel

gate