"We'll look out of place in these traveling clothes," she said, "but I suppose it is the only thing to do; we certainly won't make Sunrise Beach before seven o'clock or half-past now."
"You sound like Carrie Pepper when you talk like that," Fred told his sister as the cars were backed.
"What is the barn there for?" asked Artie.
"She doesn't sound like Carrie Pepper. Mattie Helms talks that way," Ward declared.
"Stop squabbling about Margy and her talk, or you can't have any pink ice cream for your dinner," Mr. Williamson warned them. "The barn is in the middle of the road, Artie, because it is being moved."
Artie then wanted to know why the barn was being moved and where it had come from and where it was going.
"Perhaps they sold the farm and the owner didn't like the location of the barn," Mr. Williamson explained. He was always ready to answer questions. "I suspect that is what happened, Artie, because I noticed that the old foundations, from which the barn had been lifted, were almost squarely in front of the farmhouse. You wouldn't want to sit on your front porch and have the view blocked by a barn, would you? I think they are moving it across the road, and then it will be farther from the house and nearer to the hayfields, two points in its favor."
They were going back over the road now and, following Mr. Larue's car, made a sharp turn.
"We can cut off five miles if we go through the Mooney estate," said Mr. Larue, who had been consulting a road map, when they were up with him.
"But that is private, isn't it?" Mrs. Williamson asked.