63/88 Now you go to bed and rest, so's to feel like gettin' an early start for the Fair tomorrow." Imogene shook her head. "I can't go right now, thank you, ma'am," she said. "I've got company." Emily and Thankful looked at each other. "What company ?" Before Imogene could answer the dining-room door was flung open and Hannah Parker rushed in. She was still arrayed in her Sunday gown, which she had donned in honor of Fair Day, but her Sunday bonnet was, as Captain Obed said afterward, "canted down to leeward" and her general appearance indicated alarm and apprehension. |