"Go into the house and ask Williams to take you where you can make yourself presentable." "Not I," said he, dropping into a seat.

"Come, sit here beside me." She laughed; obeyed.

She even made several light passes at his wet mop of hair.

She wondered why it was that she liked to touch him, where a few minutes before she had shrunk from it.
"I've just been down telling that old grandmother of yours what I thought of her," said he.
She startled.

"How did you happen to go there ?" she exclaimed.