"Then you had better come into the sleigh; 'there's room enough for twa.'"
"Thanks; with pleasure."
"Driver, you see the young lady ahead of us. I expect she is coming to my place. Just pick her up, please."
"All right, ma'am."
"I suppose you will think our sleighing a make-believe, after Lindsay, and locality."
"You will be surprised to hear I now come from New York. Dale telegraphed me to meet some railway men, so I have been there ever since."
"But won't your interests north-east suffer by your absence?"
"Oh, not materially, I hope; still I am anxious to be on the spot. There is a splendid mine out that way I should like to get hold of."
"Iron, I suppose?"
"Oh, yes; it is, you know, to be the great industry of the future."