It got on me as much as it did on you." This was as near to a quarrel as these two had ever approached.
Bob, listening around the corner of the house, was holding his sides to keep from bursting into laughter, though my own opinion is that he should have felt sorry for his "joke." It might have resulted disastrously, for either Susan or the hired man might have broken a leg or an arm.

But Bob never thought of that.

His sole idea was to create a laugh for himself.
Dent and Susan, dripping wet, looked at each other.

Then the cook, wiping some of the water from her face, got up.

As she did so the cord tied to her apron strings became tightened, and as Dent was partly standing on the step-ladder, Susan's progress was suddenly stopped.
"There!" she exclaimed, "That's what did it.