And they talked together, or Paul taught Edgar the songs he himself had learned from Annie at the piano.

And often all the men, Mr.Leivers as well, had bitter debates on the nationalizing of the land and similar problems.

Paul had already heard his mother's views, and as these were as yet his own, he argued for her.

Miriam attended and took part, but was all the time waiting until it should be over and a personal communication might begin.
"After all," she said within herself, "if the land were nationalized, Edgar and Paul and I would be just the same." So she waited for the youth to come back to her.
He was studying for his painting.

He loved to sit at home, alone with his mother, at night, working and working.