Well, I'm glad you did.

Mrs.Barnes and Miss Howes would have had a long session in the dark if you hadn't.

Yes, and a night at Darius Holt's hotel, which would have been a heap worse.

So you've been livin' at South Middleboro, Mrs.
Barnes, have you?
Does Miss Howes live there, too ?" Thankful, very grateful for the change of topic, told of her life since her husband's death, of her long stay with Mrs.Pearson, of Emily's teaching school, and their trip aboard the depot-wagon.
"Well," exclaimed Miss Parker, when she had finished, "you have been through enough, I should say! A reg'lar story-book adventure, ain't it?
Lost in a storm and shut up in an empty house, the one you come purpose to see.

It's a mercy you wa'n't either of you hurt, climbin' in that window the way you did.