You never can tell what'll follow a cold--with some people." Thankful was glad when the meal was over.

She, too, was fearful that her cousin might have taken cold during the wet chill of the previous night.
But Emily declared she was very well indeed; that the very sight of the sunlit sea through the dining-room windows had acted like a tonic.
"Good enough!" exclaimed Captain Obed, heartily.

"Then we ought to be gettin' a bigger dose of that tonic.

Mrs.Barnes, if you and Miss Howes would like to walk over and have a look at that property of yours, now's as good a time as any to be doin' it.

I'll go along with you if I won't be in the way." Thankful looked down rather doubtfully at the borrowed gown she was wearing, but Miss Parker came to the rescue by announcing that her guests' own garments must be dry by this time, they had been hanging by the stove all night.