Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London

Nor did Bonbright, one morning, taking dictation of a telegram in the
last hour before noon, know that Dick's casual sauntering to the
window, still dictating, had been caused by the faint sound of hoofs
on the driveway. It was not the first of recent mornings that Dick had
so sauntered to the window, to glance out with apparent absentness at
the rush of the morning riding party in the last dash home to the
hitching rails. But he knew, on this morning, before the first figures
came in sight whose those figures would be.