Chapter 45

His will to be about the business bore her along. He helped her over the fence and set out at a great pace down the road, as if he had but one purpose in the world--to get to a man in a ditch and pull him out of it. He even forgot to offer to carry Jo's lightly burdened pail--which was evidence enough of his abstraction of mind, for he was peculiarly scrupulous in such small matters. Sally Chase had averred that he must have been brought up in his youth in a most mannerly Scottish household--which happened to be tr…