I am expecting one." "If she comes, she can wait," said Miss Panney.

"You have a case here which is acute and alarming, and cannot be trifled with." "How do you know I expect a 'she' ?" asked the doctor.
"If it had been a man, he would have been here and gone," said Miss Panney.
Miss Panney knew as well as any one that immediate employment as a teacher could be rarely obtained in summer, and for this reason she wished to confine her efforts to the immediate neighborhood, where personal persuasion and influence might be brought into action.
Moreover, she had said to herself, "If we cannot get any teaching for the girl, we must get her something else to do, for the present.

But whatever is to be done must be done here and now, or the old woman will be off before we know it." She sat for a few moments with her brows knitted in thought.

Suddenly she exclaimed, "Is it Susan Clopsey you expect?
Very well, then, I will make an exception in her favor.

She is just coming in at the gate, and I would not interfere with your practice on her for anything.