You didn't even put bean plants in her hat." Lee was highly amused at this raillery.

He began to walk forward by her side as she moved away from the spot, now addressing her, now listening to her words, in a desire to stretch the last minute to the uttermost.

Her head came just even with his shoulder, so that she had to raise her face to gaze at him when he spoke, and in the act there was something simple, winning, blithe, as likewise in the swing of her lissom figure beside his own there was an inimitable jauntiness and cheer.

He divined her eager, ardent spirit; and the closeness of her, this comradeship, set his blood humming.
Abruptly he halted, laying a finger on her arm.
"I mustn't go the whole way, you know," he said, "though I should like to.

For, by heavens, you've opened my eyes! Didn't realize how satiated with myself I'd become.