“Yes, I think so!” was the defiant answer.
“And you knew she cared so much for Billy?”
“Yes, I knew it.”
“It can’t be possible! Why, I thought you loved Felicia, your cousin!”
“I do!”
“Oh, I can’t believe it, Dick—really I can’t!”
“I do! I do!” cried the boy passionately. “Don’t you dare say I don’t!”
“But you like to give her pain?”
“No, I don’t!”
“Strange! You have done so often within the past two days. You have done about everything you could think of that she would not like you to do, ending with hitching that old tin can to the heels of her burro, which nearly frightened Billy to death.”