And when THAT happens I'll be GLAD to leave.

Land sakes! there's somebody at the door; and I expect I'm a perfect sight." She rubbed her face with her apron, thereby making it redder than ever, and hurried into the dining room.
"Bos'n," said Captain Cy quickly, "you stay here in the kitchen." Emmie looked at him in surprised bewilderment, but she suppressed her curiosity concerning the identity of the person who had knocked, and obeyed.

The captain pulled the kitchen door almost shut and listened at the crack.
The first spoken words by the visitor appeared to relieve Captain Cy's anxiety; but they seemed to astonish him greatly.
"Why!" he exclaimed in a whisper.

"Ain't that--It sounds like--" "It's teacher," whispered Bos'n, who also had been listening.

"She's come to find out why I wasn't at school.