Peitz tapped the screen and scrolled through a variety of drink icons. He double tapped a couple of others to add the extras and the comm dinged once it registered the final selection.

His face expressed horror and indignation. Instinct rather than reason came to my help; he was a Beadle; I was a woman.

All was funeral gloom and hope never whispered its cheering promises there.

Life in the country will be fuller, richer, and more comfortful, because it is freer, healthier, and more vigorous.