You're here, yourself; don't you like it ?" I wanted to say something smart, there, and I have thought of a dozen bright remarks since; but at the time I couldn't think of a blessed thing that came within a mile of being either witty or epigrammatic.

Love-making was all new to me, and I saw right then that I wasn't going to shine.
I finally did remark that I should like it better if her father would be less belligerent and more peaceful as a neighbor.
"You told me, last summer, that you enjoyed keeping up the feud," she reminded, smiling whimsically down at me.
She made a wrong play there; she let me see that she did remember some things that I said.

It boosted my courage a notch.
"But that was last summer," I countered.

"One can change one's view-point a lot in twelve months.

Anyway, you knew all along that I didn't mean a word of it." "Indeed!" It was evident that she didn't quite like having me take that tone.
"Yes, 'indeed'!" I repeated, feeling a rebellion against circumstances and at convention growing stronger within me.