"Land of love! Marry ME? You're crazy! I'm scart to death."

Ase shook his head, more mysterious than ever. "I don't know," says he.
"Maybe I am crazy. But I see that same man this afternoon, when I was in
that trance, and--"

"Trance! Do you mean to tell me you was in a TRANCE out there by the
wood-pile? Are you a MEDIUM?"

Well, Ase, he wouldn't admit that he was a medium exactly, but he give
her to understand that there wa'n't many mediums in this country that
could do business 'longside of him when he was really working. 'Course
he made believe he didn't want to talk about such things, and, likewise
of course, that made Debby all the more anxious TO talk about 'em.
She found out that her new boarder was subject to trances and had
second-sight and could draw horoscopes, and I don't know what all.
Particular she wanted to know more about that "man" that was going to
marry her, but Asaph wouldn't say much about him.

"All I can say is," says Ase, "that he didn't appear to me like a
common man. He was sort of familiar looking, and yet there was something
distinguished about him, something uncommon, as you might say. But this
much comes to me strong: He's a man any woman would be proud to get, and
some time he's coming to offer you a good home. You won't have to keep
poorhouse all your days."

So the widow went up to her room with what you might call a case of
delightful horrors. She was too scart to sleep and frightened to stay
awake. She kept two lamps burning all night.