What you bet Agatha asked John his intentions?
I almost wish she would," she added.

"He has some, but there is a string to them in some way, and I can't just make out where, or why it is." "Not even a guess ?" asked Nancy Ellen.
"Not even a guess, with any sense to it.

I've thought it was coming repeatedly; but I've got a stubborn Bates streak, and I won't lift a finger to help him.

He'll speak up, loud and plain, or there will be no 'connubial bliss' for us, as Agatha says.

I think he has ideas about other things than freight train gear.