I want you to know this, because it will teach you that I have a little bit of appreciation of how good you are to me, and to all the world as well.

I am glad that I almost cried myself sick over leaving you.

I wish now I just had stood up in the car, and roared like a burned baby.
"But all the tears I shed in fear of grandfather and grandmother were wasted.

They are a couple of dear old people, and it would have been a crime to allow them to suffer more than they must of necessity.

It all seems so different when they talk; and when I see the home, luxuries, and friends my mother had, it appears utterly incomprehensible that she dared leave them for a stranger.