How patiently she followed! "Why does she follow him that way ?" I asked the storekeeper when they were gone.
"Oh, I dunno, boy!" he answered.

"She's crazy an' I guess she dunno what she's doin'." The explanation did not satisfy me.

I knew, or thought I knew, better than he the meaning of that look in her eyes.

I had seen it before.
I started for the big schoolhouse and a number of boys joined me with pleasant words.
"I saw you lookin' at ol' Kate," one of them said to me.

"Don't ye ever make fun o' her.