THE APPLE TREE GIRL
could, her joy in the day overcast by those sage, old-fashioned thoughts which had come to her the other night. By her side, both his hands on the wheel again, Perry seemed to be thinking of something very hard indeed.
"And now," thought Charlotte, "if he's like I think he is, he'll want to do it all the more. Oh, dear! I shall have to tell him—I shall have to tell him how I knocked him down that day on purpose."
But the more she tried to tell him, the harder it seemed; and a few minutes later, when Perry came out of his silence with the air of a man who has made a great resolution, she weakly decided to let well enough alone.
"How chatty he is, all at once!" she couldn't help thinking.
A little later when he began to sing the chorus of an old song, she was almost too surprised to join in. She did join in, though, and after they had sung
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