"It is only because I am so proud of him, and so glad--so glad for us all." Jed did not mind.

It is doubtful if at that moment he was aware of what she was saying.

He was thinking how her brother's coming had improved her, how well she was looking, how much more color there was in her cheeks, and how good it was to hear her laugh once more.
The windmill shop was a different place when she came.

It was a lucky day for him when the Powlesses frightened him into letting Barbara and her mother move into the old house for a month's trial.
Of course he did not express these thoughts aloud, in fact he expressed nothing whatever.

He thought and thought and, after a time, gradually became aware that there was absolute silence in the shop.