Such a girl! Took her place as one of the family directly.

Learned to make herself useful in the dairy in a week's time.

I tell you this--she hasn't been with us quite two months yet, and we wonder already how we ever got on without her!" Once started on the subject of Naomi Colebrook, Ambrose held to that one topic and talked on it without intermission.

It required no great gift of penetration to discover the impression which the American cousin had produced in this case.

The young fellow's enthusiasm communicated itself, in a certain tepid degree, to me.