"Maybe he'll snore!"
"Then you have my permission to choke him," she laughed.
Yet, he was very much in a pout, and staring gloomily at the ground.
"You'll be awfully crowded," he said at last, "with Dale in the buggy, too!"
"We'll take the surrey."
"And he'll be bored stiff!"
"Not from hearing complimentary things said to me," she gently rebuked him.
"Oh, Jane, be a sport and let's go alone! I'm worth saving, ain't I, Colonel?"
"You can't prove it by me, you rogue," the old gentleman asserted.
"I may think about it," she compromised, smiling over her shoulder as she turned away.