If it wasn't for you I'd run away right now." Dot only smiled back at him and laid her hand on his hair.

She was his latest sweetheart.

He loved her for her vivid color, her abundant and beautiful hair, and also because she was a sympathetic listener.

She, on her part, enjoyed the sound of his eager voice and the glow of his deep brown eyes.

They were both pupils in the little seminary in the town, and he saw her every day walking to and from the recitation halls.