I think it was just fine of you to make him foreman here! If Phenie would only be nice to him, instead of turning up her nose the way she does! You see yourself how she treats Ford, and I just think it's a shame! I think he's just splendid!" "She don't treat him any worse than he does her," observed Mason, just to the core.

"Seems to me, if I was single, and a girl as pretty as Jo--" "Well, I'm glad Ford has got spunk enough not to care," Mrs.Kate interposed hastily.

"Phenie's pretty, of course--but it takes more than that to attract a man like Ford.

You can't expect him to like her when she won't look at him, hardly; it makes me feel terribly, because he's sure to think it's because he--I've tried to make her see that it isn't right to condemn a man because he has made one mistake.

He ought to be encouraged, instead of being made to feel that he is a--an outcast, practically.