You are the only person in Orham whom I have trusted.

You know that." "Why, yes--why, yes, I do know it and--and I'm ever so much obliged to you.

More obliged than I can tell you, I am.

Now--now would you mind tellin' me just one thing more?
About this Mr.What's- his-name out West in the bank there--this Mr.Reed--did he write you he thought 'twas all right for him to send Sam the--the kind of letter he did send him, the one givin' your brother such a good reference ?" The color rose in her face and she hesitated before replying.
"No," she confessed, after a moment.

"He did not write me that he thought it right to give Captain Hunniwell such a reference.