"Nothing ever tasted so good to me," said he, leaning on his
elbow and spreading a crisp biscuit with a layer of cheese.
"I always think that of each meal I eat in a place like this,
but this one seems to have a special flavour. I wonder if it
can be the company?"

He smiled across at her, the sunshine among the pine needles
of the tree above him throwing flecks of bright copper among
the thick locks of his hair.

"I think the company is usually an important part of all such
outings," she admitted frankly. "I never took one before in
the society of a wornout doctor who began to look like a boy
again before he had finished his coffee. I really shouldn't
know you were the same person who invited me to go on this
expedition."

"There's nothing like it for renewing one, body and mind.
Actual physical repose isn't often the best cure for
weariness: it's change of thought and occupation, particularly
if the open air is a part of the cure. I've forgotten I have
a care in the world: all I can think of is - may I say it? -
yourself! I can't get over the wonder of seeing you turn from
what Bob calls his `pretty lady' into the girl I see before me
- a girl who looks about nineteen, with a capacity for good
sport in the open air I never dreamed of."

"The open air would renew everybody's youth, I think, if
everybody would go to living out-of-doors. We're through,