I'd been a fool to have asked him after he took me for her." "Then--you'd got this--all planned ?" Her mother took her up sharply.
"No, I hadn't got it all planned," said she.

"I don't deny it come into my head.

I knew how much folks said I looked like Esther, but I didn't go so far as to plan it; there needn't anybody say I did." "You ain't going to take the money ?" "I'm goin' to take that fifteen hundred dollars out of it." "Mother, you ain't going to stay here, and make folks think you're Aunt Esther ?" "Yes, I am." Then all Lois' horror and terror manifested themselves in one cry--"O mother!" Mrs.Field never flinched.

"If you want to act so an' feel so about it, you can," said she.

"Your mother is some older than you, an' she knows what is right jest about as well as you can tell her.