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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: "Seventy-two miles as the crow flies, ma'am."
"Thank you."
The conversation threatened to die before it was well born.
Desperately McWilliams tried to think of something to say to keep
it alive without being too bold.
"If y'u were thinking of traveling out that way I could give y'u
a lift. I just came in to get another lady--an old lady that has
just come to this country."
"Thank you, but I'm expecting a conveyance to meet me here. You
didn't happen to pass one on the way, I suppose?"
"No, I didn't. What ranch were y'u going to, ma'am?
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