"Do you know her cousin, Nat White?"
"Not very well, I only met him the other night. But he seems like a decent fellow."
"I cannot imagine any boy allowing two girls to get in such a predicament," said Viola, "feeling her way" to further criticism.
"It was rough, but then you see he was not with them, he had gone to the blacksmith shop to get something fixed, I believe."
"Oh, they were alone!" and Viola had gained one point. "Was it really melons, do you suppose?"
"So he said, but he seemed to take the whole thing as a joke. Ginger! It was funny to go out in a red flyer and come back in a Black Maria," and Tom laughed at his own attempt at a pun.
"Then, when the cousin came back the girls were in the police patrol? That accounts for it. I could not possibly see how any young fellow could allow girls to get into such a scrape," persisted Viola.
"Yes," said Tom vaguely, not being at all particular as to what was the nature of the remark he had given acquiescence to.
"But to be arrested!" went on Viola.
"Were they arrested?" asked Tom in surprise.