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"The Tolmans have drove home," she said, quietly. "All on 'em. What if you should git your horse, an' take Molly an' me along?" Elvin came to his feet with a lurch. He straightened himself. "I've got to talk to the parson," said he. "So I thought," answered Dilly, with composure, "but 'tain't no place here. You ask him to ride, an' let Miss Dorcas drive home alone.
The parson and Dilly rose, by one impulse, and went forward to Elvin, who sat upright, trembling from excitement past. Dilly reached him first. She put both her hands on his forehead, and smoothed back his hair. "Dear heart," she said, in a voice thrilled through by music, "dear heart! I was abroad that night, watchin' the stars, an' I see it all. I see ye do it.
She tried to speak for his ear alone, but her voice strove petulantly through her sobs: "Elvin Drew, I should think you'd be ashamed of yourself! You've made me ridiculous before the whole town, and I never'll speak to you again as long as I live. If I hadn't stayed with you every minute, I should think you'd been drinking, and I believe to my soul you have!"
But when folks thinks you're a witch, it ain't in human natur' not to fool 'em. I am a witch, ain't I, dear? Now, ain't I?" Rosa's color had faltered back, but she still stood visibly in awe of her old neighbor. "Well," she owned, "Elvin Drew says you can see in the dark, but I don't know's he means anything by it." Again Dilly broke into laughter, rocking back and forth, in happy abandonment.
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