And the cap'n was made a delegate to come and see me about it.

Come he did, and we settled it.

I went down to the parsonage with him before dinner and looked the place over.

There's an awful lot of sweepin' and dustin' to be done afore it's fit for a body to live in.

I did think that when I'd finished with this house I could swear off on that kind of dissipation for a while, but I guess, judgin' by the looks of that parsonage, what I've done so far is only practice." She paused, glanced keenly at her friend and asked: "Why! what's the matter?
You don't act nigh so glad as I thought you'd be." Grace said of course she was glad; but she looked troubled, nevertheless.
"I can hardly make it seem possible," she said.