"It used to be Mrs.Seymour Armstrong, but it isn't now, because Papa's name was Doctor Seymour Armstrong and he died, you know." And they lived in a central Connecticut city, but perhaps they weren't going to live there any more because Mamma had sold the house and didn't know exactly WHAT to do.

And they had been in Orham ever since before the Fourth of July, and they liked it EVER so much, it was so quaint and--and "franteek"-- Jed interrupted here.

"So quaint and what ?" he demanded.
"Franteek." Miss Barbara herself seemed a little doubtful of the word.

At any rate Mamma said it was something like that, and it meant they liked it anyway.

So Mr.Winslow was left to ponder whether "antique" or "unique" was intended and to follow his train of thought wherever it chanced to lead him, while the child prattled on.