1 But if she'd only tell me I'd try.
2 "No, of course I'm not," she quavered.
3 "Well, I'd like to talk to you about it," said Zeena obstinately.
4 All I know is," she continued, "I can't go on the way I am much longer.
5 "Well, when she gets married, I mean," his wife's drawl came from behind him.
6 "And the doctor don't want I should be left without anybody," Zeena continued.
7 "I suppose what folks say is true," he jerked out at her, instead of answering.
8 "I guess I won't come up yet awhile," he said, turning as if to go back to the kitchen.
9 "Hold on a minute while I unhitch the colt," Denis called to her, springing toward the shed.
10 "The doctor don't want I should be left without anybody to do for me," she said in her flat whine.
11 "I know I ain't anything like as smart as I ought to be," she went on, while he vainly struggled for expression.
12 But I haven't got the time now; I'm late as it is, he returned, holding his old silver turnip-watch to the candle.
13 I kinder knew I'd want to take a ride to-night, Eady, in his triumph, tried to put a sentimental note into his bragging voice.
14 "I told you I ain't the kind to be afraid" she tossed back, almost indifferently; and suddenly she began to walk on with a rapid step.
15 "I wouldn't ever have it said that I stood in the way of a poor girl like Mattie marrying a smart fellow like Denis Eady," Zeena answered in a tone of plaintive self-effacement.
16 "If there's going to be any trouble I want to be there," was his vague reflection, as he threw to Jotham the unexpected order to unhitch the team and lead them back to the barn.
17 "I've got my shooting pains so bad that I'm going over to Bettsbridge to spend the night with Aunt Martha Pierce and see that new doctor," she answered in a matter-of-fact tone, as if she had said she was going into the store-room to take a look at the preserves, or up to the attic to go over the blankets.
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