Somebody had come up to him onthe veranda and said
archly, Dont DARE to say you dont know ME.
I always carried it round ina folder in my breast
pocket. Well-behaved young women didnt go strolling abouton moonlit nights, wearing
wedding-clothes. His heart was pounding with a wildexultation in his
breast.
Somebody had come up to him onthe veranda and said
archly, Dont DARE to say you dont know ME.
She slipped away in theSeptember moonlight to visit
Whispering Winds.
It seemed incredible that Dandy didnt know THAT.
Dontyou remember that summer you were here? It was very satisfying to be enemies
again.
Come, dear,Ill walk part of the way home with
you.
And Aunt Beckymade me swear I wouldnt tamper with
it. Why had Mrs Dandyput such a roaring fire in the stove, even on a chilly October
day?
Brians voice shook beyond control but it was not
with fear aboutthe cattle. The Duncan Darksought to be ashamed of themselves.
Assemblies at the blacksmiths forge knewhim not.
Uncle Pippin decided it was because every one
wastoo polite.
Imagining things tomake himself
important.
Thomas was looking furtively at all thewomen in the
room.
Margaret was too uplifted to mind his profanityOh,
Penny, I didnt want to marry you either.
Then he drove home withbadly shaken nerves. Brian
started convulsively and got up, shrinking into himself.
I heard the devil cackling as I came down by the
barn, said theMoon Man.
He was never quite so self-assured
again.
Gay stood by the gate for a long while, trying to
adjust herself. It wasthe one where that fool reporter had writ up the story of the
jug.
The sky faded out into darkness and the moonshine
bathed her.
In those few moments the dream of the golden-haired
baby vanishedfor ever from her heart.
But Lawson Dark, with blood trickling from a cut on
hisforehead, had turned dazedly to his wife.
And Margaret was not one ofthose fortunate women
who can cry without their noses turning red.
The excited yelp heemitted might have been heard
for a mile. He was well insured and had an old house on his lowerfarm to move into
temporarily. If she only knew the answers tothose questions!
But she knew she did not care how right they had
been.