“No. Come to think of it they've hardly seen each other. Emily has acted sort of—sort of queer about him, too. She didn't seem to want to talk about him more'n she has about John.”
“Humph! That's funny. I can't make it out. You see Heman got on that same train John got off. He was comin' along the depot platform just as I got to it. And the depot-master sung out to him.”
“The depot-master? Eben Foster, you mean?”
“Yup. He sung out, 'Congratulations, Heman,' says he.”
“'What you congratulatin' him for?' says I.
“'Ain't you heard?' says he. 'He's engaged to be married'.”
Thankful uttered an exclamation.
“Engaged!” she repeated. “Mr. Daniels engaged—to be married?”
“So Eben said. I wanted to ask a million questions, of course, but John Kendrick was right alongside me and I couldn't. John must have heard it, too, and it did seem to me that he looked pretty well shook up, but he wa'n't any more shook than I was. I thought—Well, you see, I thought—”
Thankful knew what he had thought. She also was “shaken up.”