During breakfast she kept sharp watch down the road.

When she saw Adam, 3d, coming she stuck her note under the hook on which she had seen her father hang his hat all her life, and carrying the telescope in the clothes basket covered with a rumpled sheet, she passed across the yard and handed it over the fence to Adam, climbed that same fence, and they started toward Hartley.
Kate put the sailor hat on her head, and sat very straight, an anxious line crossing her forehead.

She was running away, and if discovered, there was the barest chance that her father might follow, and make a most disagreeable scene, before the train pulled out.

He had gone to a far field to plow corn and Kate fervently hoped he would plow until noon, which he did.

Nancy Ellen washed the dishes, and went into the front room to study, while Mrs.Bates put on her sunbonnet and began hoeing the potatoes.