glad to feel herself getting angry.

"My dear, I was going to divide it to the last PENNY!" Anne
assured her, widening her eyes.

Alix was silent, but the silence shouted her unbelief.

"Truly, I was," Anne went on. "This--this discovery only
complicates matters. Why, the last thing in the world that dear
Uncle Lee would wish would be to have us drag the family name into
a law-suit--"

"You and Justin began it!" Alix reminded her, goaded into
reluctant speech.

"I beg your pardon!" It was a favourite phrase of Anne's. "But it
was Peter who said he would fight!"

"Well, because you made the claim!" Alix, hating herself for being
betrayed into argument, said hotly. "But I won't talk about it,
Anne," she added, firmly, "and as far as coming to any agreement
with me is concerned, you might just as well have gone back on the
train with Cherry. I hate to talk this way--but we all think you
acted very--well, very meanly!" Alix finished rather flatly.

"Perhaps it's just as well to understand each other!" Anne said,
with hot cheeks. They exchanged a few more sentences, wasted words
and angry ones, and then Anne walked over to a seat in the shade,
to wait for another train, and Alix, with her heart beating hard
and her colour high, drove at mad speed back to the mountain