For all that, she smiled as she made the round.

It was typical of Bob to send her.

He might have tethered his horses and walked the distance, but he had a talent for leaving to somebody else the things he ought to do.
After supper she sat on the veranda, while Festing leaned against the rails.

The house was built of ship-lap boards, with a roof of cedar shingles, and wooden pillars supporting the projecting eaves.

It had been improved and made comfortable with Helen's money, and with the land about it, registered as belonging to her.