But do you think Thomas would do it ? Not he . He said he owed something to his position as elder in the church . In the end I had to do it myself , though I do n't like climbing ladders . I tied Thomas ' long red woollen scarf to the ventilator , and prayed that Stephen would see it . He did , for in less than an hour he drove down our lane and put his horse in our barn . He was all spruced up , and as nervous and excited as a schoolboy . He went right over to Prissy , and I began to tuft my new comfort with a clear conscience . I shall never know why it suddenly came into my head to go up to the garret and make sure that the moths had n't got into my box of blankets ; but I always believed that it was a special interposition of Providence . I went up and happened to look out of the east window ; and there I saw Emmeline Strong coming home across our pond field . I just flew down those garret stairs and out through the birches . I burst into the Strong kitchen , where Stephen and Prissy were sitting as cozy as you please . `` Stephen , come quick ! Emmeline 's nearly here , '' I cried . Prissy looked out of the window and wrung her hands . `` Oh , she 's in the lane now , '' she gasped . `` He ca n't get out of the house without her seeing him . Oh , Rosanna , what shall we do ? '' I really do n't know what would have become of those two people if I had n't been in existence to find ideas for them . `` Take Stephen up to the garret and hide him there , Prissy , '' I said firmly , `` and take him quick . ''
Prissy took him quick , but she had barely time to get back XXXXX the kitchen before Emmeline marched in -- mad as a wet hen because somebody had been ahead of her offering to sit up with Jane Lawson , and so she lost the chance of poking and prying into things while Jane was asleep .
In Rosanna as hour if into of that though to