The Rancher's Heart
The woman, whom she could now clearly see to be Mrs Casss, stuck out a thick hand and inclined her head to look at her.
"My, you're tall, aren't you?" she said. Without waiting for Everest's reply or hand, she withdrew her hand, dusting it down her dirty-green mumu. "I'm Bonnie Casss," she announced aloud.
"It's nice to meet you," Everest eventually said. In just a few seconds, the woman had made her short of words. Her remark about her height had her confused on whether to bristle or preen. People hardly called her tall, she wasn't even fully five feet and eight.