“Oh, no, he don't.”

“How do you know he don't?”

“'Cause I don't care one way or t' other.”

“You don't, eh?”

“No, I don't.”

“Well, I guess there's lots of girls that does.”

“Oh, I s'pose he's all right.”

After a silence Mamie glanced shyly up at him.

“Say, you're a friend of his, ain't you? You won't tell him what I say?”

“Should say not!” said Badeau, feeling in advance a little embarrassed. Mamie poked at the sand with her parasol as they walked.