Did Josephine consider that a drawback ? Mrs. Tom sighed . If Josephine , she thought , had put up with Tom Sentner 's tempers for fifteen years she would know how to appreciate a good-natured man at his real value . The cold snap which had set in on the day of David 's call lasted and deepened for a week . On Saturday evening , when Mrs. Tom came down for a jug of cream , the mercury of the little thermometer thumping against Josephine 's porch was below zero . The gulf was no longer blue , but white with ice . Everything outdoors was crackling and snapping . Inside Josephine had kept roaring fires all through the house but the only place really warm was the kitchen . `` Wrap your head up well , Ida , '' she said anxiously , when Mrs. Tom rose to go . `` You 've got a bad cold . '' `` There 's a cold going , '' said Mrs. Tom . `` Everyone has it . David Hartley was up at our place to-day barking terrible -- a real churchyard cough , as I told him . He never takes any care of himself . He said Zillah had a bad cold , too . Wo n't she be cranky while it lasts ? '' Josephine sat up late that night to keep fires on . She finally went to bed in the little room opposite the big hall stove , and she slept at once , and dreamed that the thumps of the thermometer flapping in the wind against the wall outside grew louder and more insistent until they woke her up . Some one was pounding on the porch door . Josephine sprang out of bed and hurried on her wrapper and felt shoes .
She had no doubt XXXXX some of the Sentners were sick .
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