"Never!"
"Don't! ... There are things a woman doesn't forgive, and I want to be good friends!"
Beecher nodded.
Gunther came out, and she gave them her fingers, remaining tall and stately, her head inclined a little pensively, until they had left.
"Most remarkable woman here!" said Gunther briefly. "In a year or so more she'll be the undisputed leader."
"What about John G.?"
"The coming man. You know we're in close relations with him. The Governor has a great admiration for him, and you know it isn't often the Governor is taken that way!"
"What's he doing?"
"Railroad unification, territorial development ... only man in this country who can appreciate what the Canadian Pacific is doing!"
"I thought he was considered rather a freebooter?"