It was no good thinking of anything of that kind, anyhow, for a good while to come.

What we'd got to do was to look out sharp and not be caught simple again like we was both last time.
After we had our tea we sat outside the verandah, and tried to make the best of it.

Jim stayed inside with mother for a good while; she didn't leave her chair much now, and sat knitting by the hour together.

There was a great change come over her lately.

She didn't seem to be afraid of our getting caught as she used to be, nor half as glad or sorry about anything.