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This would be so in any similar case, and there was
no use in trying to find out why it was so in this case.
He rose to his feet, and at that moment he heard Miriam calling to him.
"Ralph," she said, running into the barn, "I have been looking all over
for you. The new woman cannot come to-day."
"I do not see why you should appear so delighted about it," said Ralph;
"I am very sorry to hear it."
"And I am not," replied Miriam. "There are some things I want to do
before she comes, and I am very glad to have the chance. Mike brought
back word from her that if you send the wagon in the cool of the morning,
she will come over with her trunk."
"You are a funny girl," said Ralph, "to be actually pleased at the
prospect of cooking and doing housework a little longer." And as he said
that, he congratulated himself that his sister had not had the chance of
thinking him a funny fellow for lying stretched on the hay when he ought
to have been at work.
Miriam was now in good spirits again. She walked to the great open
window, and, leaning on the bar, looked out.


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