"I am sure you would," she returned positively.
"Well, now," he returned smiling, "you're speakin' as though you was pretty certain about it. You must have wrote a whole lot of the story."
"It is two-thirds finished," she returned with a trace of satisfaction in her voice which did not escape him.
"An' you've got all your characters doin' an' thinkin' things that you think they ought to do?" His eyes gleamed craftily. "You got a man an' a girl in it?"
"Of course."
"An' they're goin' to love one another?"
"No other outcome is popular with novel readers," she returned.
He rocked back and forth, his eyes languidly surveying the rim of hills in the distance.
"I expect that outcome is popular in real life too," he observed.
"Nobody ever hears about it when it turns out some other way."
"I expect love is always a popular subject," she returned smiling.