She was on horseback and you was walkin', but Beriah says you and she was mighty friendly." I might have expected this.

In Denboro one does few things unnoticed.
"She had lost her way in the woods and I helped her to find the road home," I said, "that was all." "Hum! You helped her to find the road the night of the strawberry festival, too, didn't you ?" "How in the world did you find that out ?" "Oh, it just sort of drifted around.

I've got pretty big ears--maybe you've noticed 'em--and they gen'rally catch some of what's blowin' past.

There was a coachman mixed up in that night's work and he talked some, I shouldn't wonder; most of his kind do." "Well, what of it ?" I asked, sharply.

"I helped her as I would your daughter if she had been caught alone in a storm like that.