"These fighting roustabouts generally do. Now don't get mixed. I'm not saying Abe Lincoln's not a good fellow. He's good enough of his kind, and I like him. But for women and girls that's religious, he wouldn't be my kind."
"I'm going to find out if he opposes religion," Ann said.
"Going over to the store to see him?" John questioned.
"No; I would so like to talk with him just once. But I won't because——"
"Why?" he asked, looking at her.
"Because, John, some way I feel you would not like it. I'm promised to you, and I play fair."
He made no answer, but some way Ann felt that her statement was not altogether satisfactory to John McNeil.