Honestly, can't you notice---- ?" "Virgil!" She lifted her hand to strike his arm chidingly.

"Do quit harping on that nonsense!" "Oh, of course it don't amount to anything," he said.

"A person can stand a good deal of just smell.

It don't WORRY me any." "I should think not especially as there isn't any." "Well," he said, "I feel pretty fair over the whole thing--a lot better'n I ever expected to, anyhow.

I don't know as there's any reason I shouldn't tell you so." She was deeply pleased with this acknowledgment, and her voice had tenderness in it as she responded: "There, honey! Didn't I always say you'd be glad if you did it ?" Embarrassed, he coughed loudly, then filled his pipe and lit it.