"She won't any more dare to run away than to chop her hands off.

She thinks I'll shoot her." And the unprincipled woman chuckled to herself.
Ida heard her indistinctly, and asked, timidly: "Did you speak, Aunt Peg ?" "No, I didn't; just attend to your work and don't mind me.

Did your mother make you work ?" "No; I went to school." "Time you learned.

I'll make a smart woman of you." The next morning Ida was asked if she would like to go out into the street.
"I am going to let you do a little shopping.

There are various things we want.