I think maybe the bonnet started it." Kate sat down limply on the first chair and studied the toes of her shoes.

At last she roused and looked at Nancy Ellen, waiting in smiling complaisance as she returned the picture to her end of the bureau.
"Well, why don't you go ahead ?" cried Kate in a thick, rasping voice.
"Empty yourself! Who is he?
Where did he come from?
WHY was he IN our blackberry patch?
Has he really been to see you, and is he courting you in earnest ?--But of COURSE he is! There's the lilac bush, the lawn-mower, the house to be painted, and a humdinger dress.

Is he a millionaire?
For Heaven's sake tell me--" "Give me some chance! I did meet him in the blackberry patch.

He's a nephew of Henry Lang and his name is Robert Gray.

He has just finished a medical course and he came here to rest and look at Hartley for a location, because Lang thinks it would be such a good one.