"I told Donald to bring his mother the first time he came, but he said he did not need to be chaperoned when he came to see me, because my father's name was a guarantee to his mother that my home would be a proper place for him to visit." "I wonder how many of his other girl friends invited him to bring his mother to see them," said the Judge.
"Oh, he probably grew up with the other girls and was acquainted with them from tiny things," said Linda.
"Very likely," conceded the Judge.

"I think, after all, I would rather have an invitation to make one of those trips with you to the desert or the mountains.

Is there anything else as interesting as fish hooks and Victrola needles and wooden legs to be learned ?" "Oh, yes," said Linda, leaning farther forward, a lovely color sweeping up into her cheeks, her eyes a-shine.

She had missed the fact that the Judge was jesting.

She had thought him in sober, scientific earnest.
"It's an awfully nice thing if you dig a plant or soil your hands in hunting, or anything like that, to know that there are four or five different kinds of vegetable soap where you can easily reach them, if you know them.