An' little Henry cut his lip awful.

The doctor had to put four stitches in it." Sarah came over and stood mountainously by the table.
"What's the matter with them beans ?" she challenged.
"Nothing, only..." Saxon caught her breath and avoided the threatened outburst.

"Only I'm not hungry.

It's been so hot all day.

It was terrible in the laundry." Recklessly she took a mouthful of the cold tea that had been steeped so long that it was like acid in her mouth, and recklessly, under the eye of her sister-in-law, she swallowed it and the rest of the cupful.