I don't believe you ever
thought of that."
"We could crack nuts, rob apple-orchards, or if driven to
extremity, raid a farmhouse."
"You have heard too much from the soldiers about living off the
country. I'd rather raid mamma's cupboard before we start. I'll be
ready as soon as you are."
He soon appeared in his low, easy phaeton; and she joined him with
the presentiment that there might be even greater gladness in his
face by evening than it now expressed. While on the way to the
brow of a distant hill which would be their lunching place, they
either talked with the freedom of old friends or lapsed into long
silences.
At last he asked, "Isn't it a little odd that when with you the
sense of companionship is just as strong when you are not
talking?"
"It's a comfort you are so easily entertained. Don't you think I'm
a rather moderate talker for a woman?"
"Those that talk the most are often least entertaining. I've
thought a good deal about it--the unconscious influence of people
on one another. I don't mean influence in any moral sense, but in
the power to make one comfortable or uncomfortable, and to produce
a sense of restfulness and content or to make one ill at ease and
nervously desirous of escape.
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