The moss rendered it slippery, and near the middle she almost fell into the stream; with Verty's aid, however, the passage was safely effected.
"There!" said Redbud, smiling, "you see I was right, Mr. Ashley—was I not?"
"You always are!"
"And me, sir?" said Fanny, approaching the bridge with perfect carelessness.
"You are nearly always wrong, my life's darling," observed Mr. Ralph.
"You are too bad, Ralph! I'll get angry!"
"At what?"
"At your impertinence!"
"I was not impertinent."
"You were."