But I can see what has happened.

You have been allowing old Bones to cloud your judgment.

I never knew a fellow so prone to jump to idiotic conclusions.

No doubt he heard that I had come in search of Indians and, without a single inquiry, decided that I had married one." "It was hasty of him.

I admit that," said Aunt Caroline wiping her eyes.
"But with your knowledge of my personal character you will understand that my interest in, and admiration for, our aborigines in their darker and wilder state--" "John said they were only fairly wild." "Well, even in a fairly wild state.