GLADYS. ‘Tisn’t, winter now–Ascension Day. I saw her cumin’ out o’ Dr. Desert’s house. I know ‘twas her because she had on a blue dress an’ a proud luke. Mother says the doctor come over here tu often before Mrs. Strangway went away, just afore Christmas. They was old sweethearts before she married Mr. Strangway. [To Ivy] ‘Twas yure mother told mother that.