Lois sat next her mother.
"I didn't know but you had.

I thought mebbe the furniture was kind of old-fashioned.

Have you--oh, ain't it awful ?" The storm had gathered itself like an animal for a fiercer onset.

The room was lit up with a wild play of blue fire.

The thunder crashed closely in its wake.
"Oh, we hadn't ought to talk of anything but the mercy of the Lord an' our sins!" wailed Mrs.Babcock.