"Maggie and the child spread so ?" "Maggie and the child spread so." Well, he considered.

"It IS rather rum," "That's all I claim"-- she seemed thankful for the word.

"I don't say it's anything more--but it IS, distinctly, rum." Which, after an instant, the Colonel took up.

"'More'?
What more COULD it be ?" "It could be that she's unhappy, and that she takes her funny little way of consoling herself.

For if she were unhappy"-- Mrs.Assingham had figured it out--"that's just the way, I'm convinced, she would take.