"Good weather for hay."
"Yes, fine."
"One field is about ready to cut. You better tell Aunt Hannah to come home. It's too much work for you, with the men to cook for."
"Just you let her stay and enjoy herself. I get along all right."
After a pause she asked, "Did you see some one in the orchard just now?"
"No."
"Mary she ran down after supper, and she said a strange lady was there. I wondered who it was."
"I didn't see her," he said, dully, as
though he spoke from the midst of some absorbing thought; then he got up and walked away. "You better go in and light the lamp if you want to sew," he said, roughly.
Calista took her things and went at once, looking as though she were so well satisfied that she could afford to be amused.