"It said in one of Joseph's revelations that we should dwell together in love." Susannah laughed; it was a bright, trilling laugh, and filled the large, low room with its sudden music.

It almost seemed like a light in the growing darkness.
"I guess I'll light up," said Emma, "it'll be more cheerful." Susannah was still playing with the baby, and Emma looked at her critically.

"Joseph thinks a great deal of you, Mrs.Halsey; he's told ye to teach school ?" "I have got more time than most of the women, and my husband can afford to hire a school-room." "'Tain't that," said Emma decidedly, "it's the same thing as makes ye say that you don't talk to any of the other folks except in a civil way.
Ye're a bit above all the rest of us ladies in the way ye hold yerself and the way ye speak.

I guess it comes of yer father's folks having been somebody, and then being so clever at books--ye see, Joseph sees all that; there ain't anything that he doesn't see." Susannah perceived that there was something behind this.

"You're not vexed, are you ?" Emma continued with more hesitation in her tones.