Do you suppose I could stay down here alone knowing that you might be--might be meeting or--or finding almost anything up there.

Sit right down in that chair beside me.

Don't you think it is almost time for that driver to be back ?" "Land sakes--no! He's hardly started yet.

It's goin' to take a good long spell afore he can wade a mile and a half in such a storm as this and get another horse and wagon and come back again.

He'll come by and by.
All we've got to do is to stay by this fire and be thankful we've got it." Emily shivered.