Her principal feeling seemed to be curiosity as to my reasons for the sudden change.
"Of course, Roscoe, if you are happier I shall be, too," she said.
"I know it must have been very dull for you here.

My conscience has troubled me not a little all these years.

I realize that a man, a young man like you, needs an interest in life; he wants something more than the care and companionship of a useless creature like me." "Mother, how often have I told you not to speak like that." "But he does.

Many times, when you and I have been here together, I have been on the point of urging you to leave me and go back to the world and take your place in it.

More than once, you remember, dear, I have hinted at such a thing, but you have always chosen not to understand the hints, and I have been so weak and selfish that I have not pressed them.