"You bust that tureen and I'll run you out of the kitchen with a broom," said Early Ann.
"My, my!" said Gus. "You're a wild woman, ain't you?"
"You bet I'm wild." She tossed her shining curls in the lamp light and added a kettle to the gleaming row of copper vessels hanging along the wall. "I used to bite like everything when I was a little girl."
"Let's see your teeth," said the hired man.
She flashed her white teeth, then opened wide her pretty mouth.
"Yep, you're a biter," Gus said. "But you ain't a day over seventeen by the looks of your molars."
"You don't know anything about girls," said Early Ann. "All you know about is horses."
From the other room came the voice of Sarah reading to Stanley by lamp light. Her voice was sweet, but particularly colorless this evening.
"Where'd you come from anyway?" Gus wanted to know. "And who are your folks? There ain't no Shermans in Brailsford Junction."