“To tell you the truth, I don’t know.”
“Then what in the thunder have you been doing out there two days and nights, if you haven’t made love to her?”
“Just basking in the sun.”
“Well, you are a fool. Eleven hours the first day, and fifteen hours yesterday. Confound you, don’t you know a dozen fellows in town are cursing you for all they can think of?”
“What about?”
“Why for trying to hog the whole time, day and night. She won’t let a mother’s son of them come near till you’re gone.”
“Well, that’s immense!” exclaimed Gaston slapping his friend on the back.
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“Don’t be too sure. She’s just sizing you up. She’s done the same thing a dozen times before.”
“I don’t believe it.”