"But where will you build it?" asked Maud. "You found fault with all the best sites on the lake."
"The very first site we visited suited us to perfection."
"But you said the spring contained cyanide or something."
"We were talking through our hats."
"But why——"
The Carolinians gazed at her with a kind of beseeching ardor, until she understood that they had only found fault with one promising building site after another in order that they might pass the longest time possible in her company.
And she returned their glance with one in which there was some feeling stronger than mere amusement.