Been back several days.

I reckoned Hoyle told you.

Mebbe he didn't know, though.

For nobody's been to town." "How is--how are they all ?" faltered Carley.

There was a strange wall here between her thought and her utterance.
"Everybody satisfied, I reckon," replied Charley.
"Flo--how is she ?" burst out Carley.
"Aw, Flo's loony over her husband," drawled Charley, his clear eyes on Carley's.
"Husband!" she gasped.
"Sure.