"Bread and cold meat, then."
"Fresh meat was all eat up days ago; and you and Mis' Haye don't make no 'count of ham."
Elizabeth got up and went out to Anderese and despatched him to Mountain Spring after what forage he could find. Then from a sense of duty went back to her cousin. Rose was looking out of the window again when she came in, and kept silence for a little space; but silence was never Rose's forte.
"Lizzie — what makes you live in such a place?"
"It was the pleasantest place I could find," said her cousin, with a tone of suppressed feeling.
"It's so lonely!" said Rose.
"It suited me."
"But it isn't safe," said Rose. "What if something happened to you, with nobody about, — what would you do?"
"It has not been a subject of fear with me," said Elizabeth.
"I haven't thought about it."
"Who comes to see you here? anybody?"