9/15 This hot weather we've been having lately, and then the rain, will bring it a-whooping. Can't yuh ride over to the Jonses? "I'm no coward, I hope, even if there was any danger which there isn't." Thurston's chin went up also, and he sat a bit straighter. Whether she meant it or not, he took her words as a covert stab at himself. Probably she did not mean it; at any rate the blood flew consciously to her cheeks after she had spoken, and she caught her under lip sharply between her teeth. |