"Never mind. If he's anything at all like Cap'n Abe, we'll get it all out of him. I bet he can tell us some hair-raisers."
"I tell you he's a nice old man, and I won't have you talk so about him," Louise declared. "We must change the subject."
"We'll talk about you," said Lawford quickly. "I'm awfully curious.
When does your—er—work begin down here?"
"My work?" Then she understood him and dimpled. "Oh, just now is my playtime."
"Making pictures must be interesting."
"I presume it looks so to the outsider," she admitted. It amused her immensely that he should think her a motion picture actress.
"Your coming here and Cap'n Amazon exchanging jobs with his brother have caused more excitement than Cardhaven and the vicinity have seen in a decade. Or at least since I have lived here."
"Oh! Then are you not native to the soil?"
"No, not exactly," he replied. And then after a moment he added: "It's a great old place, even in winter."
"Not dull at all?"