They left right away, before any of us had gotten anxious about you.

If the man who told me doesn't blurt it to every one he sees--what in the world possessed you, Marion, to phone down to the Forest Service that you were up there and going to stay ?" "Well, forevermore!" Marion lifted her head from her arm to stare at Kate.

Then she laughed and lay back luxuriously.

"I was afraid you wouldn't know where to look for the bread," she explained meekly, and turned her face away from the sunlight and took a nap.
Kate finished with her hair rather abruptly, considering the leisurely manner in which she had been brushing it.

She glanced often at Marion sprawled gracefully and unconventionally in the hammock with one cinder-blackened boot sticking boyishly out over the edge.