"What did she say?" Jenny inquired when the interview was over.
"She said she thought as much."
"What a liberty. Why? Nobody could tell to look at me. Or I hope not."
"Yes, but her!" commented May. "She's done nothing all her life only make it her business to know. They're all like that down here. I noticed that very soon about country people."
"What else did she say?" Jenny went on with for her unusual persistence. She was not yet able to get rid of the idea that there was something remarkable in Jenny Pearl going to have a baby. Not even the universal atmosphere of fecundity which pervaded the farm could make this fact a whit more ordinary.
"She didn't say much else," related May, not rising to the solemnity of the announcement, the revolutionary and shattering reality of it.
"But she's going to tell him?" Jenny asked.
"That made her laugh."
"What did?"
"Her having to tell him."