"You were going to say she was good- looking and then you changed your mind.

Don't you think this young female--WHAT a word! you ought to be ashamed of it--DON'T you think she is good-looking, Daddy, dear ?" She looked provokingly up into his face and he looked fondly down into hers.
"Don't you ?" she repeated.
"We-ll, I--I don't know as I'd want to go so far as to say that.

I presume likely her face might not stop a meetin'-house clock on a dark night, but--" As they were in a secluded spot where a high hedge screened them from observation Miss Maud playfully boxed her parent's ears, a proceeding which he seemed to enjoy hugely.
But there was reason in the captain's caution, nevertheless.

Miss Maud's "teasing" concerning the widow had set Jed to thinking.

The "trial" month was almost up.