"
Then she and Stevey Todd laid the table, and we sat watching her
make tea, and saw no objections.
"Shall I tell you about it?" she said calmly, pouring tea.
"If so be it's agreeable, Miss," said Stevey Todd; and Uncle
Abimelech said, "I takes no sugar in mine," but Captain Tom was silent.
She said she had run out of the back door before it was beginning to
grow dusk, and climbed the fence and gotten into Corliss' sleigh, but
she was afraid they were seen by neighbours; so that it appeared
likely Andrew McCulloch would hear about their going. "He might come
after by-and-by, and do something that would be very hot,--Wouldn't
it?"
Stevey Todd said, "It might be as you say, Miss," and Uncle
Abimelech, "It's better when it's hot," looking into his teacup as if
disappointed, but Captain Tom said nothing.
"It was snowing and drifting," she went on, "and we kept falling
into ditches, but at last we saw the light of the hotel by the
roadside and were glad."
So Billy Corliss had come and bounced at the door, and said he
wanted a minister, and quite right he was with respect to those
circumstances and Madge McCulloch, as Stevey Todd hinted, though
cautiously.
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