"Yes, dear, I see them."
"Well, then, do not go any farther; here are many pailfuls!"
"I thought there was a rustling in that bush over there!"
"Oh, you must be mad!" and the girls rushed at each other, and put their arms about each other's waists. They stood for a long while so still, that they scarcely breathed.
"It is surely nothing; let us go on picking!"
"Yes, I really think we will."
And so they began to gather berries.
"It was very kind of you, Eli, to come over to the parsonage to-day. Have you anything to tell me?"
"I have been at godfather's."
"Yes, you told me that; but have you nothing about him,—you know who?"