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"Not a bit," he answered, stoutly. "We're in for a long drought. Zephania told me so not half an hour ago." "Is Zephania a weather prophet?" "She's everything. She knows so much that she makes me ashamed of myself. And she never makes a mistake about the weather." Wade waited anxiously. "We-ll," said Eve, finally, "if you're sure it isn't going to rain, and Carrie really doesn't want me "
At five Zephania appeared with the tea things and the partie carrée gathered in the parlor and brought their several little histories up to date, and laughed and poked fun at each other, and drew more and more together as time passed. Perhaps you've been thinking that Wade's advent in Eden Village was the signal for calls and invitations to dinners, receptions, and bridge.
She's a maiden lady and has a great deal of money. They say she owns some of the railroad. She plays the organ in church, and " "Youngish, is she, with sort of wavy brown hair and " "No, sir," Zephania tittered, "Miss Cousins is kind of old and has real gray hair." "Really? On my other side, then, who's my neighbor there? Or haven't I one?" "Oh, yes, sir," answered Zephania, eagerly.
And then Miss Mullett came out and I went home." "Who's Miss Mullett, Zephania?" "She's Miss Walton's friend. They live there together in the Walton house every summer. Folks say Miss Mullett's very poor and Miss Walton looks after her." "Young, is she?" "Not so very. She's kind of middle-aged, I guess. She's real pleasant. Miss Walton thinks a lot of her." "And they're here only in the summer?"
"Well," said Wade, hesitatingly, "you can have a try at it, but it seems to me you're too young to be doing housework." "I've always done it," replied Zephania, beamingly. "What'll you have for breakfast, sir?" "Coffee can you make coffee?" "Yes, sir, three ways." "Well, one way will do," said Wade, hurriedly. "And you'll find some eggs there, I believe, and some bread.
And what did he want? He seemed in such a hurry, and so very much excited! You don't think, do you, that he is going to have a sunstroke? His face was extremely congested." "No, dear," replied Eve, as she followed Miss Mullett into the sitting-room, "I don't think he's in danger of sunstroke. You're getting to be quite as bad as Zephania on that subject.
For several days her voice was noticeably lacking in quality and volume, and "There is a Happy Land," which was her favorite hymn during that period, was rendered so subduedly that Wade was worried, and had to have the Doctor's assurance that Zephania was not going into a decline. These are only a few of the exciting things that transpired during Wade's first month in Eden Village.
If you tell me too much at once I shan't be able to remember it, you see." "All right," answered Zephania, cheerfully. "Now I'll wash up the dishes." After she had gone Wade sat for a long while in the green rep rocker, his eyes on the spray of lilac on the table and his unlighted pipe dangling from his mouth.
She wore a shapeless pink cotton dress which reached almost to her ankles, and over that a blue-checked apron which nearly trailed on the floor. Her sleeves were rolled elbow-high and one little thin hand clutched a dish-cloth as a badge of office. Wade stared dubiously at Zephania and Zephania smiled brightly back. "Look here, my child," said Wade, "how old are you, anyway?"
Zephania hesitated, half-way to the door. Finally, "It's been awful nice for me, Mr. Herrick," she said. "I've had just the best summer I ever did have." "Why, you've had a lot of hard work," said Wade. "Is that what you call nice?" "Yes, sir, but it ain't been very hard. I like to work. It seems as though the harder I work the happier I am, Mr. Herrick." "Really?
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