Have Mrs.
Jones and Miss Cross gone home ?" "No; they are over there.

There's poor Andrew coming now; I wonder if he has heard anything ?" Both women eyed hesitatingly poor Andrew Brewster's dejected figure creeping up the road in the dark.
"You holler and ask him," said the woman in the door.
"I hate to, for I know by his looks he 'ain't heard anything of her.
I know he's jest comin' home to rest a minute, so he can start again.

I know he 'ain't eat a thing since last night.

Well, Maria has got some coffee all made, and a nice little piece of steak ready to cook." "You holler and ask him." "What is the use?
Just see the way he walks; I know without askin'." However, as Andrew neared his house he involuntarily quickened his pace, and his head and shoulders became suddenly alert.

It had occurred to him that possibly Fanny and Eva might have had some news of Ellen during his absence.