You wouldn't like me half so well if I could just drop that claim and think no more about it.

I've got enough money to commute, when the time comes, and I'll feel a lot better if I go through with it now I've started.

And--James!" She smiled at him wistfully.

"Even if it is only eighty acres, it will make good pasture, and--it will help some, won't it ?" After that you could not expect Andy Green to do any more badgering or to discourage the girl.

He did like her better for having grit and a mental backbone--and he found a way of telling her so and of making the assurance convincing enough.
He filled her canvas water-bags and went with her to carry them, and he cheered her much with his air-castles.