He's only a state senator from the jayest county in Indiana.

It makes me tired." The girl's keen penetration had often surprised and it had sometimes appalled Harwood in the curious intimacy that had grown up between them.
Her intuitions were active and she had a daring imagination.

He wondered whether Bassett was fully aware of the problem Marian presented.

Dan had never ventured to suggest a sharper discipline for the girl, except on the occasion when he had caught her walking with Allen in the park.

He had regretted his interference afterward; for Bassett's anger had seemed to him out of all proportion to the offense.