He said he had a battle to wage with me because I tried to be a law to myself, and he wanted to know why I wasn't like other girls.
And I told him I had a crow to pick with HIM because he had the kind of brain that would be content to let a Jap beat him in his own school, in his own language and in his own country; so we made an engagement to fight to a finish, and it ended by his becoming the only boy friend I have and the nicest boy friend a girl ever had, I am very sure.

That's why I'm here." Linda lifted her eyes and Judge Whiting looked into them till he saw the same gold lights in their depths that Peter Morrison had seen.

He came around the table and placed a big leather chair for Linda.

Then he went back and resumed his own.
"Of course," said the Judge in his most engaging manner.

"I gather from what Donald has told me that you have a reason for being here, and I want you to understand that I am intensely interested in anything you have to say to me.