"But--but--" "Yes?
But what ?" "Don't you think--don't you think it is pretty dark for little girls to be out ?" Jed looked at her, stepped to the door, opened it and looked out, and then turned back again.
"Why," he admitted, "it is gettin' a little shadowy in the corners, maybe.

It will be darker in an hour or so.

But you think it's too dark for little girls already, eh ?" She nodded.

"I don't think Mamma would like me to be out when it's so awful dark," she said.
"Hum!.

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