I always thought her pretty capable in some respects." "That's very possible," said Flora with a hint of dryness.
"After all, it may not have been her fault," Edgar suggested.

"Marston was a generous fellow; he may have insisted on thinking first of her comfort." "Then she ought to have stopped him," said Flora firmly.

"Do you think a woman should let a man spoil his one chance of success in order to surround her with luxury ?" "The answer's obvious." A dazzling flash of lightning leaped from the mass of somber cloud overhead, and they turned back toward the house, which George and Grant reached soon afterward.

Grant said that he must get home before the storm broke, and Grierson brought out his spirited team.

It had grown nearly dark; a curious leaden haze obscured the prairie; and when the man was getting into his light, spring-seated wagon, a jagged streak of lightning suddenly reft the gloom and there was a deafening roll of thunder.