"If I couldn't do anything else I'd hang on behind, like a youngster to a truck wagon, afore you stayed at home.

Good for you, Mrs.
Thankful! But how'd you come to change your mind?
Thought you couldn't leave." Thankful smiled happily.

"I didn't change my mind, Cap'n," she said.
"Imogene changed hers.

She's a real, good sacrificin' body, the girl is.

When she found I'd been asked and wouldn't go, she put her foot down flat.