“Oh, pshaw, that's nothin'! Lots more where they come from,” replied Mandy with a giggle.
“But it's a long way for you to drive; and in the busy time too.”
“Oh, we had to come in anyway for things,” replied Mandy, making light of her service.
“You are all well?”
“Oh, pretty middlin'. Ma ain't right smart. She's too much to do, and that's the truth.”
“And the boys?” Cameron hesitated to be more specific.
“Oh, there's nothin' eatin' them. I don't bother with them much.” Mandy was desperately twisting her white cotton gloves.
At this point the nurse, with a final warning to the patient not to talk too much and not to excite himself, left the room. In a moment Mandy's whole manner changed.
“Say!” she cried in a hurried voice; “Perkins is left.”
“Left?”