Of course she never danced again, poor creature.

She was a Kirke from Lowbridge.

You ain't a-going off like that with nothing on your bare neck, are you ?" "It's a hot evening," protested Rilla.

"But I'll put on a scarf when we go on the water." "I knew of a boat load of young folks who went sailing on that harbour forty years ago just such a night as this--just exactly such a night as this," said Cousin Sophia lugubriously, "and they were upset and drowned--every last one of them.

I hope nothing like that'll happen to you tonight.