Nobody answered.
"Is he one of your high-flyers?"
"I don't know what you call high-flyers, aunt Anne," said Madge. "He was a gentleman."
"What do you mean by that? I saw some 'gentlemen' last summer at
Appledore—and I don't want to see no more. Was he that kind?"
"I wasn't there," said Madge, "and can't tell. I should have no objection to see a good many of them, if he is."
"I heard he went to Sunday School with Lois, through the rain."
"How did you know?" said Lois.
"Why shouldn't I know?"
"I thought nobody was out but me."
"Do you think folks will see an umbrella walkin' up street in the rain, and not look to see if there's somebody under it?"