I waited until I had had my dinner and they had finished, too, and were sitting in the parlor.

Then I began screaming down a register, which was right over them, my very candid opinion of them and of Thanksgiving Day in general.
"It was funny, wasn't it ?" she chuckled in answer to the burst of laughter that greeted her recital.

"But it was dreadful for poor Ma.

The minister's wife never forgave me for it.

She always referred to me behind my back as that 'terrible Briggs child.'" "Another reminiscence for 'The Adventures of Elfreda,'" said Miriam.
"Elfreda is going to write a book of her early adventures and misadventures," explained Grace to Patience.