"What do you reckon the Governor would say to it ?" "I needn't tell him--not just yet, anyhow.

But are you really and truly sure that she is my mother's sister ?" "Well, they had the same parents, and I reckon that makes 'em sisters if anything does.

I knew 'em both out yonder in California, and I never heard anybody suggest they weren't related." "Why did she come here?
Was it to see me ?" "Partly that, and partly--well, she's been pretty sick.

I reckon she's likely to go off at any time, and she wanted to be back where she was born.

She had pneumonia two years ago, and then again last winter.