I am delighted, I assure you.
Why, I missed you every minute of the time.

See how I have already begun to rely on you?
I haven't said a word to your mother about that angel.

Hah, you'd burn down the Colossus, would you?
Why, bless my life, you rascal." "Who is that ?" Ellen cried as they entered the hall; and with an airy, early-morning grace she came running down the stairway.

"Oh, nobody can place any confidence in what you say," she declared, kissing him.
"Goodness alive, man, you look as if you hadn't slept a wink since you left home." Just then Mrs.Witherspoon came out of the dining-room.
"Mother," Ellen called, "here's one of your mother's people, and he's darker than ever." Mrs.Witherspoon fondly kissed him before she gave Ellen the usual look of gentle reproach.

"You must have known how much we missed you, my son, and that is the reason you came home.