I've stayed here the whole afternoon." Suddenly Mrs.Babcock, pinning on her shawl, thrust her face close to Amanda's.

"I want to know if it's true Lois Field is so miserable ?" she whispered.
"Well, I dun'no'.

She don't look jest right, but she an' her mother won't own up but what she's well." "Goin' the way Mis' Maxwell did, ain't she ?" "I dun'no'.

I'm worried about her myself--dreadful worried.

Lois is a nice girl as ever was." "She ain't give up her school ?" Amanda shook her head.
"I shouldn't think her mother'd have her." "I s'pose she feels as if she'd got to." Mrs.Babcock dropped her voice still lower.