Does your mamma know where you are ?" The young lady's toe marked a circle on the shop floor.
"No-o," she confessed, "I--I guess she doesn't, not just exactly." "I shouldn't be surprised.

And so you've come back because you was afraid, eh ?" She swallowed hard and edged a little nearer to him.
"No-o," she declared, stoutly, "I--I wasn't afraid, not very; but-- but I thought the--the swordfish was pretty heavy to carry all alone and--and so--" Jed laughed aloud, something that he rarely did.
"Good for you, sis!" he exclaimed.

"Now you just wait until I get my hat and we'll carry that heavy fish home together." Miss Armstrong looked decidedly happier.
"Thank you very much," she said.

"And--and, if you please, my name is Barbara.".