Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

He waited.

"I wrote to Tom," she added, with an air of timid confession.

Still he waited--for he knew not what.

"I asked him to ship up the old chest of drawers--my mother's,
you remember--that we stored with him."

"Huh! I don't see anything outa the way about that," Billy said
with relief. "We need the chest, don't we? An' we can afford to
pay the freight on it, can't we?"