Let me ALONE, I tell you." His answer was to seize her about the waist and swing her bodily to her feet.

She was flushed and embarrassed.

Then she laughed shortly and shook her head.
"What are you laughin' at ?" he demanded, peering over the knoll to make sure that neither John Brown nor Miss Graham was in sight.
"Oh, not much," she answered.

"You kind of surprise me, Seth." "Why ?" "'Cause you've changed so." "Changed?
How ?" "Oh, changed, that's all.

You seem to have more spunk than you used to have." "Humph! Think so, do you ?" "Yes, I do.