Coming out again, she took up the thread of the conversation as she closed the door behind her.
"I wonder all of you don't turn your eyes on Blossom," she observed.
"Yes, she's handsome enough, but stiff-mouthed and set like all the rest of the Revercombs.

I shouldn't like to marry a Revercomb, when it comes to that." "Shouldn't you ?" she asked and laughed merrily.
"They say down at Bottoms," he went on, "that she's gone moonstruck about Mr.Jonathan, an' young Adam Doolittle swears he saw them walkin' together on the other side of old orchard hill." "I thought she was too sensible a girl for that." "They're none of 'em too sensible.

I'm the only man I ever saw who never had a woman moonstruck about him--an' it makes me feel kind of lonesome to hear the others talk.

It's a painful experience, I reckon, but it must be a fruitful source of conversation with a man's wife, if he ever marries.

Has it ever struck you," he inquired, "that the chief thing lackin' in marriage is conversation ?" "I don't know--I've never thought about it." "Now, I have often an' over again, ma bein' sech a silent person to live with.