She watched while the lawyer took some documents from his bag and laid them on the table.

"I won't sign a thing, nohow," she avowed to herself, and shut her mouth tight.
Squire Merritt discovered that besides dealing with his own scruples he had to overcome his beneficiary's.
It took a long time to convince Ann that she was not being overreached and cheated.

She seemed absolutely incapable of understanding the transfer of the mortgage note from Doctor Prescott to Squire Merritt.
"I've signed one mortgage," said she, firmly; "I put my name under my husband's.

I ain't goin' to sign another." "But nobody wants you to sign anything, Mrs.Edwards.The mortgage note is simply transferred to Squire Merritt here.

We only want you to understand it," said Lawyer Means.