It would kill me if I had to live here in this lonesome hole very long, though.

Don't you find it rather slow, Mrs.Burns ?" Poor Betty Jo's face turned fairly crimson.

She could neither answer the stranger nor meet his gaze, but stood with downcast eyes;--then looked at Brian appealingly.
But Brian was as embarrassed as Betty Jo; while the stranger, as he regarded them, smiled with an expression of insolent understanding.
"I guess I have made another mistake," he said, with a meaning laugh.
"You have," returned Brian, sharply, stepping forward as he spoke; for the man's manner was unmistakable.

"Be careful, sir, that you do not make another." Mr.Green spoke quickly, with an airy wave of his hand: "No offense; no offense, I assure you." Then as he moved toward the door, he added, still with thinly veiled insolence: "I beg your pardon for intruding.

I understand, perfectly.