"I'll telephone her it's all right," he said, as he rose from the table, "and she'll be up here about eleven." And exactly at eleven she came, not a bit self-conscious or confused.
Mrs.Ranger looked up at her--she was more than a head the taller--and found a pair of eyes she thought finest of all for their honesty looking down into hers.

"I reckon we've got--to kiss," said she, with a nervous laugh.
"I reckon so," said Madelene, kissing her, and then, after a glance and an irresistible smile, kissing her again.

"You were awfully put out when Arthur told you, weren't you ?" "Well, you know, the saying is 'A bad beginning makes a good ending,'" said Ellen.

"Since there was only Arthur left to me, I hadn't been calculating on a daughter-in-law to come and take him away." Madelene felt what lay behind that timid, subtle statement of the case.

Her face shadowed.