But, at any rate, Mrs.Barnes, the whole thing bears out what I said at the beginnin': takin' other folks' advice about your own affairs is mighty risky.

I hope, if you do go ahead with your boardin'-house plan, it won't be because I called it a good one." Thankful smiled and then sighed.

"No," she said, "if I go ahead with it it'll be because I've made up my mind to, not on account of anybody else's advice.

I've steered my own course for quite a long spell and I sha'n't signal for a pilot now.

Well, here we are home again--or at East Wellmouth anyhow." "So we be.