"What is the matter?
Is anybody sick?
Is your father--" "No, he's all right.

That is, he's as well as he has been lately, though that isn't sayin' much." "Is Grace--" "No, she's all right, too, I guess.

Been sort of quiet and sorrowful for the last few weeks--or I've seemed to notice that she has--but I cal'late it's nothin' serious.

I wouldn't wonder if the same thing that's troublin' her is what ails me." "But what is it?
Why don't you tell me ?" "I'm goin' to tell you, Keziah.

That's what I come here for.