“Maybe I ain’t so deep in the fog as you think. I took another trip while I was in the city to see a lawyer, and I found out some mighty interesting things.”
“But he couldn’t tell you everything.”
“Beth, is there something you’d otter tell me?”
“There is––there was––but I guess–––Did you see a good lawyer?”
“The best I could find.”
“Then, why did you sacrifice your boat? It was so needless.”
“I had to have that much money right off, and there wa’n’t no time to look about. I didn’t think you’d take it like this or I’d sartin never done it.”
“If you had only come to me I could have let you have that much without you having to sell your boat.”
“It would have been a mite queer to borrow from you to pay your dad, wouldn’t it?”