How is Mother ?" "She ain't any wuss.

If 'twan't an impossibility I'd say she was better the last month than I'd seen her since she was took.

Nellie Dean called on her this afternoon." "Humph! I should think a next week's bride would be too busy to call on any one except possibly the dressmaker." "Um-hm.

Well, Nellie looks as if she'd been callin' on the dressmaker pretty often.

Anyhow she looked worried and Olindy Cahoon's dressmakin' gabble is enough to worry anybody.