"I can't see anything so very astonishing about it," she said.
"Can't you ?" "Certainly not.

Why shouldn't you do it--often?
We are landlord and tenant, you and I, but that is no reason, so far as I can see, why we shouldn't be good neighbors." He shook his head.
"I don't know's you quite understand, ma'am," he said.

"It's your thinkin' of doin' it, your askin' me and--and WANTIN' to ask me that seems so kind of odd.

Do you know," he added, in a burst of confidence, "I don't suppose that, leavin' Sam Hunniwell out, another soul has asked me to eat at their house for ten year.
Course I'm far from blamin' 'em for that, you understand, but--" "Wait.

Mr.Winslow, you had tenants in this house before ?" "Yes'm.