"We'll keep on now, I guess," he answered. "I can take her another time."
"There is no time like the present," Patty said absently; wondering secretly what was the true nature of Burleigh's feeling toward her cousin.
"Isn't there?" he said, facing her suddenly. "Then I have a question to ask you. I" —
"About Flossy?" she interrupted hastily, warned by the look in his eyes.
"No; about yourself. I" —
"But I want to tell you about Flossy first. You know she" —
"I don't want to talk of Flossy," Burleigh said.