Buddy should never have sent you on such a trip--just to bring home money, like a bank messenger! But I'm glad that he did! And I do wish you would consent to stay--such an afternoon with music I haven't had since Buddy left us.

You could stay with me and train for the concert work you intend doing.

I'm only an old ranch woman in a slat sunbonnet--but I taught my Buddy--and have you heard him ?" "An old woman in a slat sunbonnet--oh, how can you?
Why, you're the most wonderful woman in the whole world." Marian's voice was almost tearful in its protest.

"Yes--I have heard--your Buddy." "'T is the strangest way to go about selling a horse that I ever saw," Bob Birnie put in dryly, smoothing his beard while he looked at them.
"We'd be glad to have you stay, lass.

But you've asked me to place a price on the horse, and I should like to ask ye a question or two.