"Then there was Benedict, tall and dour, thin; thin of body, thing of face, wide of mind. He wore orange and yellow and brown and reminded me of haystacks and pumpkins and scarecrows and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He had a long, strong jaw and hazel eyes and brown hair that never curled. he stood beside a tan horse and leaned upon a lance about which was twined a rope of flowers. He seldom laughed. I liked him."