I understood that you were studying with him." He looked at her curiously, as though they were meeting for the first time.
Then, as she talked of her studies, his embarrassment deepened, for he found himself foundering hopelessly before this clear-eyed, clear-brained backwoods girl.
"Come," said Sammy at last.

"Let us go for a walk." She led the way to her favorite spot, high up on the shoulder of Dewey, and there, with Mutton Hollow at their feet and the big hills about them, with the long blue ridges in the distance beyond which lay Ollie's world, she told him what he feared to learn.

The man refused to believe that he heard aright.

"You do not understand," he protested, and he tried to tell her of the place in life that would be hers as his wife.

In his shallowness, he talked even of jewels, and dresses, and such things.
"But can all this add one thing to life itself ?" she asked.