They're neighbors of your'n." "They are not!" she suddenly flashed back at him.
"Well, now," he returned slowly, puzzled, but knowing that somehow he was getting things wrong, "I reckon there's a lot that I don't know." "If you are going to work over at the Two Diamond," she said coldly, "you will know more than you do now.

My----" Evidently she was about to say something more, but a sound caught her ear and she rose, dropping her sewing to the chair.

"My brother is coming," she said quietly.

Standing near the door she caught Ferguson's swift glance.
"Then it ain't a husband after all," he said, pretending surprise..