She was not
tall and she was inclined to be slight, but her figure was lithe, full
of beautiful spring and reach.
"You drove away a cow!" she exclaimed. "It is only because I am rather
idiotic about cows that I happened to be afraid. I am sure that it was
a perfectly harmless animal."
"On the contrary," he assured her seriously, "there was something in the
eye of that cow which almost inspired me with fear. Did you notice the
way it lashed its tail?"
"Absurd!"
"At least," he protested, "you cannot find it absurd that I prefer to
sit here with you in the shadow of your lilac trees, to trudging any
further along that dusty road?"
"You haven't the slightest right to be here at all," she reminded him.
"I didn't even invite you to come in."
He sighed.
"Women have so little sense of consequence," he murmured. "When you
came in through that gate without saying good-bye, I naturally concluded
that I was expected to follow, especially as you had just pointed this
out to me as being your favorite seat."
Again she laughed. Then she stopped suddenly and looked at him. He
really was a somewhat difficult person to place.
"If I hadn't a very irritable parent to consider," she declared, "I
think I should ask you to tea.
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