“I never knew you were like this,” she said.

“How do you mean?”

“Why, I don't know. I've always heard that you didn't like girls; that you were—you know—kind of horrid.”

“I haven't liked very many girls.”

“I'll tell you something, if you won't tell. You won't think it's funny, will you?”

“Sure not.”

“Well, I used to be afraid of you.”

“Ain't you now?”

“No—that is, not very much.”

“What makes you afraid of me?”