He felt that he was going to dislike this girl very much before he succeeded in getting her to shelter.

He could not remember ever meeting before a woman under forty with so unpleasant a manner and with such a talent for disagreeable utterances.
"Then you must have been fighting a wildcat," she hazarded.
"Pardon me; is this a Methodist experience meeting ?" he retorted, looking full at her with lowering brows.

"It seems to me the only subject which concerns us mutually is the problem of getting to a ranch before dark." "You'll have to solve it yourself.

I never attempt puzzles." The girl, somewhat to his surprise, showed no resentment at his rebuff.

Indeed, he began to suspect her of being secretly amused.