Of course I can't understand, but I do want to feel as if I were helping when it is done." "I won't take a step in it without consulting you or having you along," he promised.
At that moment the bugle sounded the first call for luncheon.
"You'll stay for luncheon," she invited.
"Certainly," he assured her.

"You couldn't drive me away." "Very well, right after luncheon let's go out and look at the place again.

It will look different now that it is--" She caught herself.
She had almost said "now that it is ours." "Now that it is secured," she finished.
After luncheon they drove back to the site of Lake Jo, and spent a delirious while planning the things which were to be done to make that spot an earthly Paradise.

Never was a couple so prolific of ideas as they were that afternoon.

With 'Ennery waiting down in the road they tramped all over the hills again, standing first on one spot and then another to survey the alluring prospect, and to plan wonderful new and attractive features of which no previous summer resort builder had ever even dared to dream.
During the afternoon not one word passed between them which might be construed to be of an intimately personal nature, but as they drove to Hollis Creek, tired but happy, Sam somehow or other felt that he had made quite a bit of progress, and was correspondingly elated.