"Come on.
Have you had supper ?" "No," said Susan.

She was hungry now.

The splendid health of the girl that had calmed her torment of soul into a dull ache was clamoring for food--food to enable her body to carry her strong and enduring through whatever might befall.
"I'll set something out for you," said Sallie.

"Come right in.
You might leave your bundle here by the parlor door.

We'll put you in the upstairs room." They passed the front stairway, went back through the hall, through the big low-ceilinged living-room with its vast fireplace now covered for the warm season by a screen of flowered wallpaper.