“Never again could he see a dogwood blossom or eat a fish without thinking of her.”

“How could he convince her to join him and hitch her buggy to a star when she was bound and determined to hitch it to a sodbuster's plow?”

“In sober moments, it shamed him to think and act like he did. But he wasn't sober now.”

“He snorted and his long face informed her he was still as grumpy as a woodpecker with a headache.”

“The worst part was he never did get any of that damned apple pie.”

“This time he jerked the appendage from her soft lap and tucked it under his leg, Indian fashion.”

“When she squeezed his arm and told him she had two pies in her buggy, he thought he'd died and gone to heaven.”