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Hit wouldn't be no more'n nature, though, for you-all ter hate me. I sure have been poison-mean." "But that is all past now, Judy," said Betty Jo, heartily. "Come and sit down?" She started toward the chairs. But the mountain girl did not move, except to shake her head in refusal of the hospitable invitation.
"I wouldn't guarantee that she is wholly good, but I blame her poison-mean husband more than her. Anyway, she is better than you suppose her." "I made no charge against her, and am only glad she is going," said Helen Savine. Mrs. Savine smiled shrewdly. "Well, I am going to show you there is nothing in that charge. Not quite logical, is it, but sit still there and listen to me."
The fellow was poison-mean, but she thought him rash. He had struck her a cruel blow, but she did not mean to sit still and nurse the wound. She must strike back with all the force she could use and make him sorry he had provoked her to fight. Then, putting off her half-formed plans until next day, she went to bed.
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