“Splendid,” Lin replied, a trifle remotely.
“Don't you like it when they all get balled up and get out that way?”
“Humming,” said Lin.
“Don't you guess it's just girls, though, that do that?”
“What, young fellow?”
“Why, all that prayer-saying an' stuff.”
“I guess it must be.”
“She said to do it when the ice scared her, an' of course a man had to do what she wanted him.”
“Sure.”
“Well, do you believe they'd 'a' done it if she hadn't been on that boat, and clung around an' cried an' everything, an' made her friends feel bad?”