Coming from their cold ride into these cheerful rooms and to a warm welcome, the hearts of both man and boy glowed with unaccustomed feeling.

And throughout the dinner that followed betimes--during which Mr.Graham's pleasantries and Louise's gay spirits and mirth evoked in Lee a blitheness to which he long had been a stranger and in Dave a state of joyous bliss--they luxuriated in halcyon well-being.

After the meal Louise, at her father's suggestion, went to the piano and sang while the men were smoking their cigars.
And then followed an hour at cards, High Five, at which Mr.Graham and Dave won the most games; and then a maid, a Mexican girl, Rosita, brought in a bowl of nuts and raisins for the rancher and the boy who settled themselves for a match at checkers, and Lee and Louise strolled to a window seat at the other end of the long living room.
A delicate pink was in the girl's cheeks.

Her eyes were tender under their long lashes; a smile still lingered on her lips.

It was as if her countenance, her mind, her spirit, were suffused with the happiness and peace of the hour, of the day.
"My poor one-armed man, how is he ?" she asked.