"When you comin' home ?" said he.
"Oh, Cephas! I jest ran over here a minute.

I--wanted to see--if--Sylvy had any emptins.

Do you want me an' Charlotte to come now ?" Cephas turned on his heel.

"I think it's about time for you both to be home," he grunted.
Sarah Barnard arose and looked with piteous appeal at Charlotte.
Charlotte hesitated a second, then she arose without a word, and followed her mother, who followed Cephas.

They went in a procession of three, with Cephas marching ahead like a general, across the yard, and Sylvia and Hannah stood at a window watching them.
"Well," said Hannah Berry, "all I've got to say is I'm thankful I 'ain't got a man like that, an' you ought to be mighty thankful you 'ain't got any man at all, Sylvy Crane.".