MDMD2: The Brotherhood of the Grape

[Peter Fellows-McCully]

>    "Dixon looks outside at the ebbing wintry sunlight,  'Nor 
> too early, I guess...?'

This one surprised me a little. I'd always assumed that "I guess"
was a fairly modern American turn of phrase. If so and it's not
intended here in the modern meaning, what was Dixon guessing at?

pfm
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