"I shouldn't think you would have liked that."

"Didn't; had to do what I could."

"What would you like to do?"

"Oh, I don't know. I never had any choice, so I never gave it any
thought. Something that would keep me out of doors, I reckon."

"Do you know much about plants and trees?"

"I don't know whether I know much; I love them, that's all."

"You could do some landscape gardening for a place like this, I
should think."

Jim stared at her, and drew himself up haughtily. "It really is late,
Miss Orr," he said. "I think, if you will allow me, I will take you
home."

"What are you angry about?"

"I am not angry."

"Yes, you are. You are angry because I said that about landscape
gardening."

"I am not a beggar or a man who undertakes a job he is not competent
to perform, if I am poor."