Land knows what you'd have said next!" "But, Dorindy, I tell you I thought--" "YOU thought! I know what SHE must have thought.

That she'd made a mistake and run afoul of an asylum for the feeble-minded." "Umph! I should have GOT feeble-minded if I'd had any more of that kind of talk.

What made her ask if a sick woman like Comfort was 'in' and 'to home'?
Couldn't be nowheres else, could she ?" "Rubbish! she meant could Mrs.Paine see folks, that's all." "See 'em! How you talk! She ain't blind." "Oh, my soul and body! She was tryin' to ask if she might make a call on Comfort." "Well then, why didn't she ask it; 'stead of wantin' to know if she was in ?" "That's the high-toned way TO ask, and you'd ought to have known it." "Humph! Do tell! Well, I ain't tony, myself.

Don't have no chance to be in this house.

Nothin' but work, work, work! tongue, tongue, tongue! for me around here.