Part 14 (2/2)
Verna looked surprised
”But this is the first time you have been into--in this country, at any rate”
He smiled He could have told a different story
”I have been in South America, and the forest belts here are a joke to that But tellof the record koodoo Your father wasn't joking when he said it was your work?”
”No, it's true” Then she stopped A sudden idea had struck her She did not want to pose as an Amazon before this acquaintance of just three hours and three-quarters She wished her father had said nothing about it
”Well done Why, you're a regular Diana,” said Denhaular what? I told you I was utterly uneducated”
”So you did, and I didn't believe you, nor do I now Ladies are not expected to be up in the classics, except the 'advanced' ones, and they're none the better for it Well, the party I s with a bow and arrows that wouldn't dae a mouse--at least that's how she's represented in sculpture and painting Likeith an incidental cur or two thrown in”
Verna laughed merrily
”Oh, is that it?” she said ”Well, I told you I was an ignora of the record head”
She told hiraphically and well, but so far as her own part in it was concerned rather diffidently
Denhaeance, and in his ownbeside hiht have been walking on an English country road or in an English park! She would have fitted in equally well there Shehim an account of some dance or theatrical perforht poaching expedition and the shooting of the large aniht of the moon--by herself The naturalness of her, too, struck hi, as she did, a secluded life
”What are you thinking about?” she said, for he had relapsed into unconscious silence
”About you,” he answered
”About ”
”Try”
”Very well You were thinking: Here's a boisterous, sporting female, who rides and shoots like a man, and who fires pistol shots at natives when they offend her; and who probably sain”
”Go on Anything else?”
”No; that's enough to go on with”
”All right I was thinking nothing of the kind I was thinking of your pluck, for one thing, and your naturalness for another I was also thinking that ere having an awfully jolly walk”