"And I'm sure I didn't do a thing either. Now please don't be silly and——"
"Dave! Silly!"
"I didn't mean that exactly, Jessie. But you know——"
"It's not a bit nice for you to call me silly!" retorted the girl, her face flaming.
"I didn't mean just that, Jessie. I meant——"
"You did mean it! You think I am silly, do you? All right, you can think so! Please paddle straight for our dock."
"Now, Jessie——" began Dave, entreatingly.
"I don't want to hear another word! Take me straight to the dock," retorted the girl.
"Very well, if you won't listen to me you don't have to," answered Dave; and now he, too, showed that he was completely out of sorts.
He struck the paddle deeper than ever into the water, and with long, telling strokes the canoe shot forward over the lake in the direction of Bear Camp.