The expression in her eyes was disconcerting even to that cheeky young individual--he had not borne her gaze a second until he removed his hand.
"Thanks," said Linda in a dry drawl.

"And you will add to my obligation if in the future you will remember not to deal in assumptions.

I am not your 'beauty,' and I'm not anyone's beauty; while the only thing in this world that I am interested in at present is to get the best education I can and at the same time carry on work that I love to do.

I have a year to finish my course in the high school and when I finish I will only have a good beginning for whatever I decide to study next." "That's nothing," said the irrepressible Henry.

"It will take me two years to catch a sufficient number of gold bugs to be really serious, but there wouldn't be any harm in having a mutual understanding and something definite to work for, and then we might be able, you know, to cut out some of that year of high-school grinding.