If any of the folks ask you how I like my new housekeeper, you tell 'em there's nothin' like her anywhere.

That's no lie." So Mrs.Beasley stayed on at the Whittaker place and, thanks to Mr.
Tidditt, the general opinion of inquisitive Bayport was that the new housekeeper was a grand success.

Only Captain Cy and Asaph knew the whole truth, and Mr.Bangs a part.

That part, Deborah's deafness, troubled him not a little and he thought much concerning it.

As a result of this thinking he wrote a letter to a relative in Boston.