his shoulders, her head was lowered until her cheek lay in his hair.


They came down to earth. Ambrose seated himself beside her, and
looking in her shamed face laughed softly and deep. "You fraud," he
said.

Colina hid her face. "Don't!" she begged.

He laughed more.

"What are you laughing at?" she demanded.

"To think how you scared me," he said. "With your grand clothes and
high and mighty airs. I had to dig my toes into the floor to keep from
cutting and running. And it was all bluff!"

"Scared you!" said Colina. "I never in my life knew a man so utterly
regardless and brutal!"

"You like it," he said. Colina blushed.

"I had no line to go on," said Ambrose with his engaging simplicity.
"I never made love to any girls. I haven't read many books either. I
guess that's all guff, anyway. I didn't know how the thing ought to be
carried through. But something told me if I knuckled under to you the
least bit it would be all day with Ambrose."

They laughed together.