Lone Point

Lone Point is a Christian Romance by Grace Livingston Hill

“No, thanks!” said Maria promptly and decidedly. “I don’t think I should care for any place where Marvie Parker goes. I don’t see what you find in that girl to attract you, Ray. She is the dowdiest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Her father is nothing but a clerk in his brother-in-law’s store. There are plenty of nice girls for you to go with without choosing her for a friend.”
“But she is nice, ’Ri,” said the younger sister, her eyes flashing bright in her eagerness to defend her friend. “You don’t know her or you wouldn’t talk that way. She is very bright and has read and studied far more than either of us. The whole family are very bright. I never enjoyed myself more in my life than I did the evening I spend with them last week. She has a brother just home from college who is a s full of life as can be, and Marvie is the sweetest girl I know, next to you.”
“She may be sweet enough,” answered Maria, ignoring the earnest compliment, “but she is......