Again Betty Jo, in the naturalness of her manner toward him, and by her
matter-of-fact, impersonal consideration of his perplexing situation,
had brought to his unsettled and chaotic mind a sense of stability and
order; and by subtly insinuating her own practical decisions as to the
course he should follow, had made herself a very literal part of his
inner life. In fact, Betty Jo knew Brian Kent more intimately at the
close of their first meeting than she could have known him after years
of acquaintanceship under the ordinary course of development.
Brian's consciousness of this would naturally cause him to feel toward
the young woman as though she had long been a part of his life. Still
other causes might have contributed to the intimate companionship that
so quickly became to them both an established and taken-for-granted
fact; but, the circumstances of their first meeting, given, of course,
their peculiar individualities, were, really, quite enough. The fact
that it was springtime might also have had something to do with it.
The morning after her arrival, Betty Jo set to work typing the
manuscript. Brian went to his work on the timbered hillside. In the
evenings, Brian worked over the typewitten pages,--revising, correcting,
perfecting,--and then, as Betty Jo made the final copy for the printers,
they went critically over the work together.
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