And I guess he'd be right; I don't know any Vanderbilts, but I've known Maud since she was a baby.

She's a--" He paused, inspecting a nick in the chisel edge.

Again Phillips shifted in his seat on the edge of the workbench.
"Well ?" he asked.
"Eh ?" Jed looked up in mild inquiry.

"What is it ?" he said.
"That's what I want to know--what is it?
You were talking about Maud Hunniwell.

You said you had known her since she was a baby and that she was--something or other; that was as far as you got." "Sho!.