I might get absent-minded and mention 'em to Matildy.

And then--whew!" "If you don't stop tryin' to play smarty I'll go home.

What's Matildy Tripp to me, I'd like to know?
And even when Mary Thayer was here I was old enough to be her dad.

But I remember what a nice girl she was and how the boarders liked her.

They used to say she done more than all the Howes tribe put together to make the Sea Sight House a good hotel.