Seemed to me the stuff might be more fillin' than nourishin'." Ruth smiled faintly.

Then she shook her head.
"Oh, Jed," she said, "you're as transparent as a windowpane.

Thank you, though.

If anything could cheer me up and help me to forget I think you could." Jed looked repentant.

"I'd no business to tell you all that rigamarole," he said.