"Miss Jane told me they were coming.

How long are they going to stay ?" "Dunno.

Till they git fed up and fattened, maybe.

If they was mine I'd have killin' time to-day." Ann Gossaway and some of her cronies also gave free rein to their tongues.
"Learned them tricks at a finishin' school, did they ?" broke out the dressmaker.

(Lucy had been the only young woman in Warehold who had ever enjoyed that privilege.) "Wearin' each other's hats, rollin' round in the sand, and hollerin' so you could hear 'em clear to the lighthouse.