“Yes, but that is not strange in this climate. We ought to go right in, according to rules.”
“The sun is hot enough, this afternoon, but we’ll go in a minute. Seems to me the river is a little rough.”
“They had some storms south and west of us, last night and this morning. I imagine Isabel is having a hard row of it upstream.”
“She is paddling, not rowing. There she has turned again.”
“Hilary, do you remember the first year we were here together?”
“Indeed I do, Cathalina. I had never been with anybody just like you, and I enjoyed it so much.”
“I didn’t amount to much, I guess.”
“Indeed you did. You had lots of grit to do so much that you were not accustomed to doing. I admired you very much, and do yet.”
“You were the splendid girl that taught me so much,” said Cathalina. “I hope that you are going to belong to our family. Campbell doesn’t think of a girl but you.”
“It isn’t settled yet,” said Hilary, which was more than she had said as yet to any one except Lilian. “I think so much of Campbell, but there is college and the war and everything, and, Cathalina, I couldn’t be engaged to Campbell unless he asked me, could I?” Hilary’s eyes were dancing now.