Mr.Tidditt chuckled aloud.

Even Bailey dared to look pleased.
"There!" sneered the widow Tripp.

"Ain't that--Perhaps you remember that Cap'n Whittaker got her the teacher's place ?" "Yes," put in Miss Phinney, "and nobody knows WHY he got it for her.
That is, nobody has known up to now.

Maybe we can begin to guess a little after this." "She was at his house, was she ?" observed Keturah.

"Humph! I wonder why?
Seems to me if _I_ was a young--that is, a single woman like her, I'd be kind of careful about callin' on bachelors.