"Mis' Field don't want her windows all broke in.

That's dreadful sharp." Thunder shook the house like an explosion.

The women looked at each other with awed faces.
"Where is your mother?
Why don't she come in here ?" Mrs.Babcock asked excitedly of Lois returning from the bedroom.
"She's gone berrying," replied Lois, feebly.

She sank into a chair.
"Gone berryin'!" screamed Mrs.Babcock, and the other women echoed her.
"Yes'm." "When did she go ?" "Right after dinner." "Right after dinner, an' she ain't got home yet! Out in this awful tempest! Well, she'll be killed.

You'll never see her again, that's all.