"Yes he would," said Elizabeth. "What do I care for a stripped house!" — "with a stripped heart," her thought finished it.
"Well don't you care for supper neither? — for that old thing is a fixin' it," said Clam.
"You must not call her names to me."
"Ain't she old?" said Clam.
"She is a very good old woman, I believe."
"Ain't you comin' Miss 'Lizabeth? They won't sit down without you."
"Who sent you out here?"
"Karen axed where you was; and Mrs. Nettley said she dursn't go look for you; and Mr. Landholm said I was to come and bring you in."
"He didn't, Clam! —"
"As likely as your head's been in the moss there, he did, Miss
'Lizabeth."