"Looked me right in the face, innocent as a lamb, and she——"
"She's six months gone if a day."
"Seem's if she might've gone straight, being the oldest in the family. You'd thought she'd want to set an example to her little brothers and sisters."
"Pshaw! she should worry."
"Ain't girls awful today!"
"When you told me on the 'phone, I couldn't b'lieve it, and I come along on purpose to make sure for myself."
"Well, now you see, though I'm not used to havin' my word doubted."
"Why, Mrs. Munson, I hadn't the idea of questioning your word; but I thought as you hadn't seen for yourself, and got it third-hand."
"I got it straight—straight from Batt Leeson, and he ought to know after workin' more'n ten years at the Bar Q."