"I can believe that. You've even seemed to me to be keeping out of its way, or out of mine, which comes to the same thing, all the afternoon."
"It's not really worth worrying over. When you've given it there won't be much gained."
"You mean calling you—your name. It was your own idea to wait, you know."
"You can call me it now without any conditions. Jack has told me we're kind of cousins."
"Is that all he's told you?"
"A little more."
"Oh! Enough to make you hesitate about a certain step you had thought of taking?"
"Enough to make me think I'd better take it in some other place."
"Don't take it anywhere else"—earnestly.
She was startled at his intensity, and looked uneasily up the hill.