Your sister Lucy ain't growed right.

Maybe she kin help it and maybe she can't, but she'll leak every time there comes a twist.

See if she don't." But Jane never lost faith nor wavered in her trust.

With the old-time love strong upon her she continued to make excuses for this thoughtless, irresponsible woman, so easily influenced.

"It is Maria Collins who has written the letter, and not Lucy," she kept saying to herself.