I know the chicken's perfect, and doesn't lack brains, and you didn't mean that she does.

You're all stirred up over something.

What's wrong ?" Miss Georgie would have spoken in just that tone if she had been a man or if Grant had been a woman.
So Good Indian told her.
"And you imagine that it's partly your fault, and that it wouldn't have happened if you had spent more time keeping your weather eye open, and not so much making love ?" Miss Georgie could be very blunt, as well as keen.

"Well, I don't see how you could prevent it, or what you could have done--unless you had kicked old Baumberger into the Snake.

He's the god in this machine.