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"Darrie, oh, Dar-rie!" called Baxter ... "a Southern society girl, but a mighty good radical already," he explained to me, sotto voce, as we heard sounds of her approach. Mary Darfield Malcolm came in, in a flimsy dressing gown of yellow, with blue ribbons in it, her hair wet and still done up in a towel.
And Mary Darfield Malcolm whom we always called "Darrie" went quickly to her room when we got back, so the others wouldn't notice that she had been crying.... Quite often, in the afternoons, toward dusk, around a dying fire, the whole community had "sings" out in the woods, near the one large stream that abutted the colony, and gathered into itself, all the little brooks....
'You said it was raining at Darminster. 'Yes, that it was, everywhere beyond the tunnel through the Darfield hills. 'Exactly, I know they make a line in the rainfall. Well, here it was dry, but Dolores called it a wet day. 'Now I call that too bad, Jane, to lay a trap for the poor child in the game, cried Colonel Mohun, just as if they had still been boy and girl together.
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