It was now that Maud showed her first symptoms of embarrassment.
"Why," she said, twirling the fox tail and looking at the floor, "there may be one or two more.

I thought--I mean Pa and I thought perhaps we might invite Mrs.Armstrong and Babbie.

You know them, Jed, so they won't be like strangers.

And Pa thinks Mrs.Armstrong is a very nice lady, a real addition to the town; I've heard him say so often," she added, earnestly.
Jed was silent.

She looked up at him from under the brim of the new hat.
"You wouldn't mind them, Jed, would you ?" she asked.