I'm not criticising father.

He is a perfect dear and I am awfully glad he has got that Inspectorship." "Yes," replied her mother, "your father is suited to his new work and likes it.

And Larry will be finishing his college this year, I think.
And he has earned it too," continued the mother.

"When I think of all he has done and how generously he has turned his salary into the family fund, and how often he has been disappointed--" Here her voice trembled a little.
Nora dropped quickly to her knees, taking her mother in her arms.

"Don't we all know, Mother, what he has done?
Shall I ever forget those first two awful years, the winter mornings when he had to get up before daylight to get the house warm, and that awful school.