I always HAD to root, so I ain't a competent judge.

Go on, you've got me interested." "Well, I said I'd root, that's all.

But I didn't have the nerve to go and tell the girl.

The engagement had been announced, and all that, and I knew what a mess it would make for her.

I sat in my room, among the things I was packing in my grip to take with me, and thought and thought.