Caroline was for givin' it to 'em right off, she's a good-hearted girl; but I said--that is, I kind of coaxed her out of it.

I thought I'd ask some questions first." "So you came to me to ask them ?" Malcolm smiled contentedly.

Evidently the cares and complications of guardianship were already proving too intricate for the unsophisticated countryman.

He wished advice, and had come to him for it, possibly at Caroline's suggestion.

Affairs were shaping themselves well.