"She don't act to me as if she had any more interest in Green River than Jerusalem, nor the folks that live there.

I keep thinkin' I won't tell her another thing about it.

I never see anybody so changed as she is." "Mebbe she ain't well," said Mrs.Green.

"I think she looks awfully.
She's as thin as a rail, an' she ain't a mite of color.

Lois looks better." "Mis' Field never did have any flesh on her bones," Mrs.Babcock rejoined; "an' as for Lois, nothin' ever did ail her but spring weather an' fussin'.