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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: chin toward him aggressively.
"Y'u're too young," he protested, helplessly.
"I'm no younger than you are," came her quick, indignant retort.
Thus boldly accused of his youth, the foreman blushed. "I didn't
mean that. Miss Messiter said she was an old lady--"
"You needn't tell fibs about it. She couldn't have said anything
of the kind. Who are you, anyhow?" the girl demanded, with
spirit.
"I'm the foreman of the Lazy D, come to get Miss Darling. My name
is McWilliams--Jim McWilliams."
"I don't need your first name, Mr. McWilliams," she assured him,
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