I wonder what the letter is about, and what is in the package ?" "Probably one of Mr.Lee's jokes.

He is quite capable of turning the whole thing into ridicule.

I dare say he considers his visit here a prolonged jest." "With his poor leg, Kate?
You are as unfair to him as you were to Falkner when they first came." Kate, however, kept her dark eyebrows knitted in a piquant frown.
"To think of his intimating WHAT he would allow Falkner to say! And yet you believe he has no evil influence over the young man." Mrs.Hale laughed.

"Where are you going so fast, Kate ?" she called mischievously, as the young lady flounced out of the room.
"Where?
Why, to tidy John's room.

He may be coming at any moment now.