Her very face was different, while it did not seem possible that during one night the acid of twenty years could disappear from a voice and leave it sweet and pleasant.
For the next few days Elnora worked at mounting the moths her mother had taken.

She had to go to the Bird Woman and tell about the disaster, but Mrs.Comstock was allowed to think that Elnora delivered the moths when she made the trip.

If she had told her what actually happened, the chances were that Mrs.Comstock again would have taken possession of the Limberlost, hunting there until she replaced all the moths that had been destroyed.

But Elnora knew from experience what it meant to collect such a list in pairs.

It would require steady work for at least two summers to replace the lost moths.