She wondered if Patricia had not been shocked by some unguarded expression from Wilbur.

She had heard that speech becomes regrettably loose in the heat of this sport.

He sought to reassure her.
"I never said the least wrong thing," he insisted.

"But she did, you bet! 'Darn' and 'gosh' and everything like that, and you ought to have heard her once when she missed an easy putt.

She said worse than 'darn!' She blazed out and said--" "Don't tell me!" protested shuddering Winona.