"Or at least, I'd have waited until I THOUGHT sure as death, I knew.

It seems that sometimes you can be fooled about those things." "But if you thought sure you knew, and then found out you had been mistaken, you wouldn't have anything to be ASHAMED of, would you ?" "Not-on-your-life-I-wouldn't!" cried Shelley, hammering each word into her right knee with her doubled fist.

"What are you driving at, Blatherskite?
What have you got into your head ?" "Oh just studying about things," I said, which was exactly the truth.
"Sally getting married last fall, and Laddie going to this, just started me to wondering." Fooled her, too! "Oh well, there's no harm done," she said.

"The sooner you get these matters straightened out, the better able you will be to take care of yourself.

If you ever go to a city, you'll find out that a girl needs considerable care taken of her." "You could look out for yourself, Shelley ?" "Well, I don't know as I made such a glorious fist of it," she said, "but at least, as you say, I've nothing to be ashamed of!" I almost hugged her head off.
"Of course you haven't!" I cried.