Stick with it, an' you'll win out." Later, when she had put on her hat to start for the laundry, she found Tom waiting for her at the corner.
"An', Saxon," he said, hastily and haltingly, "you won't take anything I've said...

you know...

--about Sarah...

as bein' in any way disloyal to her?
She's a good woman, an' faithful.

An' her life ain't so easy by a long shot.