The smell of musty dampness disappeared from the dining room and the wholesome odors of outdoors and of good things cooking took its place.
Keziah, in the midst of her labors, found time to coach her employer and companion in Trumet ways, and particularly in the ways which Trumet expected its clergymen to travel.

On the morning following his first night in the parsonage, he expressed himself as feeling the need of exercise.

He thought he should take a walk.
"Well," said his housekeeper from her station opposite him at the breakfast table, "if I was you I wouldn't take too long a one.

You'd better be back here by ten, anyhow.

Where was you thinkin' of goin' ?" Mr.Ellery had no particular destination in mind.