That would have been nothing....

Daren, this--this time I--it was a lady!" gasped Pepper.
"Oh, say now, Pepper--not really ?" queried Lane, incredulously.
"It was.

And a lady I--I admire very much." "Who ?" "Miss Amanda Hill." "The schoolteacher?
Nice little woman like that! Pepper, why couldn't you pick on one of these Middleville gossips or society dames ?" "Lord--I didn't know who she was--until after--and I couldn't have helped it anyway," he replied, mopping his red face.

"When--I saw her--and she recognized me--I nearly died....

It was at White's Confectionery Den.