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“I’ toward the pillared house on the knoll, his father and Cathleen a yard ahead of them

“Let’s go out to dinner tonight,” she said

“And where would you suggest?” Ty mocked “In your extensive travels of late, have you discovered any restaurant in the area other than Sally’s?”

“We’ll go to Sally’s I don’t care” She gave a blithe shrug, showing herself reht and I don’t feel like staying at home”

“Are you going to Sally’s tonight?” Cat turned, having been listening to their conversation “Please, can I go with you?” she asked, all green-eyed eagerness

“Cat, you shouldn’t invite yourself,” her father said in mild reprimand

“But I want to go,” she protested

“Ah, that sounds like souessed with an impish smile “It couldn’t be that Tkylor boy, could it?”

“Tara!” Cat gave her a low-voiced warning, flashing her a look of annoyance while she glanced anxiously at her father to see if he’d heard

“Taylor?” Ty frowned “You don’t mean Repp Taylor?”

“The very same” Tara nodded “Cathleen has a crush on him”

“Why, he’s twenty years old” Chase Calder frowned at his fifteen-year-old daughter

“Don’t pay any attention to Tara” Cathleen glared at her to be silent and faced the front with an angry little flounce of her head “She doesn’t knohat she’s talking about Repp Taylor is much too old for me”

“I should certainly hope so,” her father retorted

“Can I go with theht, please?” She went back to her initial request, this tie get to have dates, but I never go anywhere”