I can let you have a side room, of course, and that would be cheaper." But Mr.Daniels did not wish a side room; he desired a front room and, at last, consented to pay the regular rate for it.

But when the arrangement was concluded Thankful could not help feeling that she had taken advantage of an unworldly innocence.
Captain Obed Bangs, when she told him, reassured her.
"Don't worry, ma'am," he said.

"I wouldn't lay awake nights fearin' I'd got ahead of Heman Daniels much.

If you have got ahead of him you're the only person I ever see that did, and you ought to be proud instead of ashamed.

And I'd get him to make his offer in writin' and you lock up the writin'." "Why! Why, Captain Obed! How you do talk! You don't mean that Mr.
Daniels is a cheat, do you?
You don't mean such a thing as THAT ?" The captain waved a protesting hand.
"No, no," he declared.