She's talkin' of goin' up to Sandwich pretty soon." "She IS?
Alone ?" "So she says." "To leave you here?
Why! well, I'm surprised." "Godfreys mighty! so be I.But she says she b'lieves she needs a change and there's church conference up there, you know, and she figgers that she ain't been to conference she don't know when.

I s'pose you'll go, won't you, Mr.Ellery ?" "Probably." "Um--hm.

I kind of wisht I was goin' myself.

'Twill be kind of lonesome round home without her." Considering that that variety of lonesomeness had been Abishai's dream of paradise for years, Ellery thought his change of heart a good joke and told Keziah of it when he returned to the parsonage.

The housekeeper was greatly surprised.
"Well! well! well!" she exclaimed.