He leaned forward, peering around till he could see her face, and repeated the question.
"Oh," she answered indifferently, bending slightly to examine the toe of her shoe with a little frown, as if it interested her more than the question.

"I just went out into the wide world to seek my fortune.

You know I never had a chance before." "And did you find it ?" She laughed.

"Well, some people might not think so, but I'm satisfied." "Did you have any adventures ?" he persisted.
"Yes, heaps and heaps, but I'm saving them to go in my memoirs, so you needn't ask what they were." "Lost on Broadway, or Arizona Mary's Mystery!" exclaimed Phil.

"I shall never rest easy until I unearth it." "Then you'll have a long spell of uneasiness," was the grim reply.
"Horses couldn't drag it from me." He had begun his questioning merely in a spirit of banter, but as she stubbornly persisted in her refusals, he began to think that she really had had some ridiculous adventure, and was determined to find out what it was.