He would have taken one look at me, jumped the fence, and run to Lang's for dear life.

Better cut that idea right out!" So Kate "cut that idea out" at once, but the operation was painful, because when one turns mental surgeon and operates on the ugly spots in one's disposition, there is no anaesthetic, nor is the work done with skilful hands, so the wounds are numerous and leave ugly scars; but Kate was ruthless.

She resolved never to think of that brook scene again.

In life, as she had lived it, she would not have profited by having been first at the berry patch.

Yet she had a right to think of Robert Gray's face, grave in concern for her, his offers to help, the influence he would have in her favour with Nancy Ellen.