This of course he had not known and never would know, but the words had caused her many smiles during the night.
"You didn't show it much," he observed.

"You must have took right a-hold.

Some women would have gone clean off the handle.

They wouldn't have been able to do anything." Her lips twitched, but she still gave her attention to her sewing, treating his talk with a mild interest.
"There is nothing about a snake bite to become excited over.

That is, if treatment is applied in time.