Wilbur ardently wished that Winona could have been there to hear this talk, because the peerless young things freely used the expletive "Darn!" after inept strokes.

Still they bored him.

He would rather have been on the links.
He confessed at last to his little court that he much preferred golf to tennis.

Patricia said that she had taken up golf, and that he must coach her over the Newbern course.

The dark-eyed girl at once said that she was about to take up golf, and would need even more coaching than Patricia.