Betty was always tender-hearted, and though she did not trust him, she said they might still be friends, but that that depended on his respect for her forbearance.

Miller had promised he would never refer to the old subject and he had kept his word.
Indeed Betty welcomed any diversion for the long winter evenings.
Occasionally some of the young people visited her, and they sang and danced, roasted apples, popped chestnuts, and played games.

Often Wetzel and Major McColloch came in after supper.

Betty would come down and sing for them, and afterward would coax Indian lore and woodcraft from Wetzel, or she would play checkers with the Major.

If she succeeded in winning from him, which in truth was not often, she teased him unmercifully.