"Perhaps," said Katie, "that even on sunny paths one guesses that there are such things as storms in the mountains." It was only his eyes which answered, but the fullness of the response ushered them into a silence in which they rested together understandingly.
"I sat there watching the house," he went back to it after the moment.

"I was sure the girl would come out again.

'She'll bungle it,' I said to myself.

'She'll never be able to put it through.' But time passed--and she did not come out!"-- inconsistently enough that came with a ring of triumph.

"And then the next day--after the wonder had grown and grown--I saw her driving with you.