Ingram thought Lassie's remarks fascinating, and she thought his two "Yes's" both clever and original. They were each thoroughly satisfied with one another, and were deeply interested each minute. Ingram had never tramped along a country road in starlight with this pretty young girl before, and Lassie had never walked anywhere, with any man, in all her life. It was not perhaps remarkable that what had happened was happening. Not at all.
"How fast the time has gone," Lassie said, as they mounted the Wiley hill; "to think that I have been here over a week!"
"And to think of all that has happened," said Ingram.
"I know; isn't it strange?"
"I shall be awfully lonesome after you go."
This sounded so mournful and pathetic that it brought a lump into her throat and she could not speak for a minute.
"Alva will go, too," Ingram went on, presently.
"But she'll come back."
"Let us hope so."
They walked over the Wiley hill.