Swiftcurrent Creek I Tear My Heart Open II

Arlette looked a little bashful when he complimented her. "Well, I sometimes I surprise myself," she told him. The girl often did that, she often thought that she couldn't do something and then she even surprised herself.

"Perhaps some beginner's luck," she muttered to him. She shook out her coat. "Leave the fish there?" she asked. She wasn't sure if that was the way of fishing. Maybe he would eat it right away.