The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 18 Page 18

She went out the door almost as if she were eager to escape.

“Hain’t ye goin’ to wait fer yer horse?” said Hoke, laughing. “Set a minute till I fetch him.”

“I clean forgot,” she said, and when he had left, she turned to her friend. “Azalie — don’t say anything to Hoke about me — us. Did Aunt Sally see? You know I didn’t know myself until I woke and found myself there. I’d been trying to make him take a little whiskey — and — I must have gone asleep like I was — and he woke up and must ‘a’ felt like he had to kiss somebody — he was that glad to be alive.”

“Nevah you fret, child.” Azalea smiled a quiet smile. “I’m not one to talk; anyway, I reckon Doctah Thryng’s