An' she was.
"But she wasn't cryin' by night.

Not much she was! She'd washed her face an' dressed herself up as pretty as could be, an' she never so much as looked as if she wanted her husband to stay with her, when he said right after supper that he guessed he'd go out to the observatory.

An' 't was that way right along after that.

I know, 'cause I watched.

You see, I knew what she'd _said_ she'd do.