But Good Indian, for the time being wholly absorbed by the smiles of his lady, had no eyes for her, and seemed to attach no especial meaning to her visit.

So that Miss Georgie, feminine to her finger-tips and oversensitive perhaps where those two were concerned, suddenly abandoned her real object in going to the ranch, and rode away without saying a word of what she had come to say.
She was a direct young woman who was not in the habit of mincing matters with herself, or of dodging an issue, and she bluntly called herself a fool many times that evening, because she had not said plainly that she would like to talk with Grant "and taken him off to one side--by the ear, if necessary--and talked to him, and told him what I went down there to tell him," she said to herself angrily.

"And if Evadna didn't like it, she could do the other thing.

It does seem as if girls like that are always having the trail smoothed down for them to dance their way through life, while other people climb over rocks--mostly with packs on their shoulders that don't rightly belong to them." She sighed impatiently.

"It must be lovely to be absolutely selfish--when you're pretty enough and young enough to make it stick!" Miss Georgie was, without doubt, in a nasty temper that night..