Colburn isn't that way, and back at school there wasn't a single boy that was anything like that." "What!" She stopped, and turned suddenly to face him.
"What's the matter ?" he said, stopping, too.

Something he said had startled her, evidently.
"How can you say such a thing ?" she cried.

"_You_ love to fight!" "Me ?" "You do! You love fighting.

You always have loved fighting." He was dumbfounded.

"Why, I never had a fight in my life!" She cried out in protest of such prevarication.
"Well, I never did," he insisted, mildly.
"Why, you had a fight about _me_!" "No, I didn't." "With Wesley Bender!" Ramsey chuckled.