After that, the home that once had been to its dwellers the most completely heart-satisfying spot in all the world became a place of dread, of haunting ghosts, of acutely poignant memories.

They used the house for sleeping in and for eating in, but there was no living in it longer.

To them it was a tomb, though neither would acknowledge it and each bore with it for the other's sake.
"Honestly, Dad, I wish I could make it go, for your sake--" "For my sake, boy?
Why, I have all of it I care for.

Not for my sake.
But what else can we do but stick it ?" "I suppose so--but for Heaven's sake give me something worth a man's doing.

If I could tackle a job such as you and"-- the boy winced--"you and mother took on I believe I'd try it.