All I know is that everything has gone wrong.

But, wrong or right, I'm going to stay here just as long as Uncle George will let me.

He's been more of a father to me than my own.

It's you I can't get along without, you precious little mother," and he patted her pale cheeks.

"Won't you come in every day--and bring Alec too ?" then, as if he had not yet asked her consent--"You don't mind my being here, do you ?" She drew his head close to her lips and kissed his cheek.