Captain Elisha glanced quickly at him, then at his sister.
"Well, Caroline," he said, pleasantly, "I s'pose you've been expectin' me.

Mr.Graves told you I was comin', didn't he ?" Miss Warren, also, was flushed with embarrassment and mortified surprise.
"No," she stammered.

"He has been ill." "Sho! you don't say! Mrs.Dunn--your friend here--said he was laid up with a cold, but I didn't realize 'twas as bad as that.

So you didn't know I was comin' at all." "No.

We--we have not heard from you since he returned." "That's too bad.