Sit down and be civil . '' `` I can hear what you have to say quite as well here , '' said Rosemary . `` So you can , girl , if you use your ears . I only wanted you to be comfortable . You look so durned uncomfortable , standing there . Well , I 'LL sit anyway . '' Norman accordingly sat down in the very place John Meredith had once sat . The contrast was so ludicrous that Rosemary was afraid she would go off into a peal of hysterical laughter over it . Norman cast his hat aside , placed his huge , red hands on his knees , and looked up at her with his eyes a-twinkle . `` Come , girl , do n't be so stiff , '' he said , ingratiatingly . When he liked he could be very ingratiating . `` Let 's have a reasonable , sensible , friendly chat . There 's something I want to ask you . Ellen says she wo n't , so it 's up to me to do it . '' Rosemary looked down at the spring , which seemed to have shrunk to the size of a dewdrop . Norman gazed at her in despair . `` Durn it all , you might help a fellow out a bit , '' he burst forth . `` What is it you want me to help you say ? '' asked Rosemary scornfully . `` You know as well as I do , girl .
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