"You've too much wisdom.

But--" "Of course," said Joan, "I didn't know you would ride to the village yonder but I thought you might.

Uncle said you wouldn't come." Kenny laughed.

Joan never knew that he had not meant to come again.
He found home in the farm kitchen and joyously pumping homely hands, stepped at once on the tail of Hannah's cat.

Toby, after a vocal minute of terror, fixed a hard eye upon his heel and withdrew at once to a sheltered spot behind the stove.