Now drive like sin, Adam!" As Adam Bates came lurching down the walk in fury the buggy dashed past and Kate had not even time to turn her head to see what happened.
"Take the first turn," she said to Adam.

"I've done an awful thing." "What did you do ?" cried the boy.
"Asked him as nicely as I could; but he threw a chair at me.

Something funny happened to me, and I wasn't afraid of him at all.

I dodged it, and finished what I was saying, and another chair came, so the two Bates went at it." "Oh, Kate, what did you do ?" cried Adam.
"Went inside and ran around the dining table while I told him what all his sons and daughters think of him.

'Spanked school-boys' and all--" "Did you tell him my father said that ?" he demanded.
"No.