Why can't _he_ go to see 'em all, I'd like to know ?" "The doctor lives a quarter of a mile the other way.

It will save time." Margaret Bean looked at the gruel.

"I've got to make this gruel for him." "I will make it.

Get your shawl, quick." "It ain't b'iled." "I tell you I will make it." "Why can't _he_ go to both places ?" "I will go myself!" Madelon cried, suddenly.

She had been bewildered, or that would have occurred to her before.