"Barbara and I are learning, that is all." "Nora used to do the dishes at home," put in Barbara.

"Mamma hardly ever--" "Hush, dear," interrupted her mother.

"Mr.Winslow wouldn't be interested." After considerable urging Jed consented to sit a while in the living-room.

He was less reluctant to talk by this time and, the war creeping into the conversation, as it does into all conversations nowadays, they spoke of recent happenings at home and abroad.

Mrs.Armstrong was surprised to find how well informed her landlord was concerning the world struggle, its causes and its progress.
"Why, no, ma'am," he said, in answer to a remark of hers; "I ain't read it up much, as I know of, except in the newspapers.