"You'd say 'yes' in a minute if it wasn't for Mr. Jeffries."
"Oh, you think so, do you?" he gasped.
"I'm sure of it," she replied confidently. Boldly she went on: "You're afraid of him."
Judge Brewster laughed heartily.
"Afraid of him?" he echoed.
"It isn't so funny," she went on. "You're afraid of opposing him. I'm not surprised. I'm afraid of him myself."
The lawyer looked at her in an amused kind of way.
"Then why do you oppose him in everything?" he demanded.
Annie laughed as she replied:
"That's the only way I can get his attention. Why, when he met me out there to-day he actually looked at me. For the first time in his life he recognized that he has a daughter-in-law. He looked at me—and I'm not sure, but I think he wanted to bow to me. He's kind of beginning to sit up and take notice."