“Why, I thought he did everything!” Emily repeated. “Who did then?”
“I reckon I had as much as anybody to do with it.”
“You?”
“Yes. Why not?”
“But how?”
“Oh—I took him for a walk one night—the night it stormed. Did it storm here?”
“Oh, fearfully; in the early morning—awfully! But tell me—how did you do it?”
Garwood laughed.
“Oh, I just talked to him.”
“Did you persuade him—convince him?”