Was it irritating to have people for whom hot days were but hot days call heat distressing?
"Though one always has a breeze motoring," she took it up.

"There are so many ways in which automobiles make life more bearable, don't you find it so, Miss Jones ?" Katie replied, inanely--Ann was still pulling at her handkerchief--that they were indispensable, of course, though personally she was so fond of horses--.
Yes, Miss Osborne loved horses too.

Indeed it was army people had taught her to ride; once when she visited at Fort Riley--she had spent a month there with Mrs.Baxter.Katie knew her?
Oh, yes, Katie knew her, and almost all the rest of the army people whom Miss Osborne told of adoring.

Of a common world, they were not long strangers.

They came together through a whole network of associations.
Finally they reached South Carolina and concluded they must be related--something about Katie's grandmother and Miss Osborne's great-aunt--.
Katie, in the midst of her interest turning instinctively to include Ann, was curiously arrested.