However, he did not want to argue with this poor old woman.
'When Tom was called up to go to the war,' said the young woman, bitterly, 'Mr Rushton shook hands with him and promised to give him a job when he came back.

But now that poor Tom's gone and they know that me and the children's got no one to look to but Father, they do THIS.' Although at the mention of her dead son's name old Mrs Linden was evidently distressed, she was still mindful of the Atheist's presence, and hastened to rebuke her daughter-in-law.
'You shouldn't say we've got no one to look to, Mary,' she said.

'We're not as them who are without God and without hope in the world.

The Lord is our shepherd.

He careth for the widow and the fatherless.' Owen was very doubtful about this also.