At last he couldn't stand it no longer, but turned Hannah's time-table to the wall and went out for a walk.

He walked and walked and walked.

It got 'most dinner time and he had an appetite that he hadn't had afore for months.
"Just as he was turnin' into the road by the schoolhouse who should come out on the piazza of the house on the corner but Abbie Larkin.

She'd left the door open, and the smell of dinner that blew through it was tantalizin'.

Abbie was dressed in her Sunday togs and her hair was frizzed till she couldn't wrinkle her forehead.