Hurry up, Kate." Left alone with his mother, Larry went deliberately to work with her.
Well he knew the immovable quality of her resolution when once her mind was made up.

Patiently, quietly, steadily, he argued with her, urging Nora's claims for a year at college.
"She needs a change after her years of hard work." Her education was incomplete; the ground work was sound enough, but she had come to the age when she must have those finishing touches that girls require to fit them for their place in life.

"She is a splendid girl, but in some ways still a child needing discipline; in other ways mature, too mature.

She ought to have her chance and ought to have it now." One never knew what would happen in the case of girls.
His mother sighed.

"Poor Nora, she has had discipline enough of a kind, and hard discipline it has been indeed for you all." "Nonsense, Mother, we have had a perfectly fine time together, all of us.