'Really,' says she, 'you are--Why, no, I'm not.' "That was all, but it set me to thinkin' hard.

She wa'n't engaged to Loveland; she said so, herself.

And yet, if she wanted Jonadab, she was actin' mighty funny.

I ain't had no experience, but it seemed to me that then was the time to bag him and she'd put him off on purpose.

She was ages too ancient to be a flirt for the fun of it.