I can't imagine one meeting a man in this surreptitious fashion.

Really, Buck, when you come to think of it, it is almost as bad as--as--what you did at Connelly's, you know!" "Not on your life, it isn't! It's the thing I knew you would do--and there isn't any truer or better girl whatever on this earth!" "I am glad you think so, Buck." The Westerner was trembling as much now with delight and pleasure as he had before been trembling with apprehension.

The fear that Winnie would cast him off when she knew the truth about the _Crested Foam_ affair, that had so distressed him, had given place to a deep satisfaction.
"It would be dreadful if father should discover us here.

I am really getting scared!" she continued.
"I reckon that there isn't any other place whatever where we can go ?" he anxiously asked.
"No.

But we can stand and talk here a little while.