Colina saw that she had reduced him utterly.

She smiled winningly.

"Dad, if you'd only let me be myself! We could be such pals if you wouldn't try to play the heavy father!" "Is it being yourself to act like a harum-scarum tomboy ?" inquired Gaviller sarcastically.
Colina laughed.

"Yes!" she said boldly.

"If that's what you want to call it?
There's something in me," she went on seriously.