"Two hundred miles," answered the twins glibly.
"How wide is that?"
Louisa Ellen responded. To her a river was a line on a map. She would make this river wide enough even to suit Sarah.
"About as wide as the coal-bucket," answered Louisa Ellen.
At that moment, before Sarah had time to explain to Louisa Ellen the phenomenal dullness of her mind, the latch of the door was lifted softly and allowed to drop.
"It is Aunt Mena," said the twins together.
Sarah motioned them to the settle.
"Sit there till I tell you to get up," she commanded. "I will go up to the window and look down."
The twins held each other's hands in fright. Was Jacob Kalb coming again to carry them out?
"Aunt Mena couldn't fetch us alone," said Ellen Louisa.