"Let me see it now," said Magnus, smiling. "Destroy ignorance wherever you find it."
"I guess I will! No, I'll give that walk to Mr. Clayton, and nobody else shall have a crumb."
"Or a smile."
"Good for Clayton," said Rig. "Then he won't have to dead-beat to the hospital Monday morning, but can go there for good and sufficient reasons."
"Aren't you ashamed!—as if my candy was poison," said Miss Jo indignantly.
"Mr. Kindred," said the hostess, "my curiosity is astir about this 'best girl' of yours; I should like to know your taste. What is she like?"
"Like herself: I know nobody else," said Magnus.
"So then she really does exist somewhere?"
"Why, you asked about her."
"Yes, of course I did; but then I didn't know but Mr. McLean had been fooling us."