"She hasn't got the sense she was born with where he is concerned.

He walked home with her from the over-harbour church last prayer-meeting night and the airs she has put on since would really make you weary of life.

As if a Toronto boy like Ken Ford would ever really think of a country girl like Ethel!" Rilla flushed.

It did not matter to her if Kenneth Ford walked home with Ethel Reese a dozen times--it did not! Nothing that he did mattered to her.

He was ages older than she was.