You know we sha'n't starve if you don't have work." "We shall starve in the end, and you know I've been--" Andrew stopped suddenly as he heard Ellen and his sister-in-law coming.

He shook his head at his wife with a warning motion that she should keep silence.
"Don't Eva know ?" she whispered.
"No, she came out early.

Do for Heaven's sake keep quiet till after supper." Eva was sharp-eyed, and all through supper she watched Andrew, and the lines of melancholy on his face, which did not disappear even when he forced conversation.
"What in creation ails you, Andrew ?" she burst out, finally.

"You look like a walking funeral." Andrew made no reply, and Fanny volunteered an answer.

"He's all tired out," she said; "he's got a little cold.