He swiveled around on his knees. "All right. You can't object to this position. And it expresses my feelings much better."
She shut the car door, and leaned over it.
"Nut or plain?"
"What?"
"The chocolate."
"Oh! The kind with raisins in it, please. Some day, Erica Burgoyne, I shall crown you with rubies and make you to walk on carpets rich as —»
But the sentence was lost in the roar of Tinny's departure.
Chapter 12
"Kindness," said Erica, to her father's head groom, "have you anything laid by?"
Kindness paused in his checking the corn account, shot her a pale glance from a wrinkled old eye, and went on with his adding.