It's five mile to our cottage." "I should like to see your cottage." Martha stared at her a moment curiously before she took up her polishing brush and began to rub the grate again.

She was thinking that the small plain face did not look quite as sour at this moment as it had done the first morning she saw it.

It looked just a trifle like little Susan Ann's when she wanted something very much.
"I'll ask my mother about it," she said.

"She's one o' them that nearly always sees a way to do things.

It's my day out today an' I'm goin' home.