Sarah helped Zoe with the meal.

Reverdy stayed to share it with us.

But I had learned that he lived at the tavern, though he disliked it thoroughly.
Some nights later I asked Zoe to walk out with me.

She was timid about the rattlesnakes which she said were everywhere through the woods and the grass, sometimes crawling into the roads.

There were wildcats and wolves too in the timber; but they were not so likely to be encountered now as in the winter time.