"I know you didn't mean to do any harm, Rose, and I suppose it would have got out anyway.

'Most everything does get out but good deeds." "I truly didn't mean to do any harm, Charlotte," Rose repeated.
"I know you didn't.

We won't say any more about it." "I was just running over across lots last night," Rose said.

"I supposed you'd be in the front room with Barney, but I thought I'd see Aunt Sarah.

I'd got terrible lonesome; mother had gone to sleep in her chair, and father had gone to bed.