I can't come here.

But--I believe I won't close the house till Billy gets home, after all," she declared.

The next moment she was gone, and William, dazedly, from the doorway, was watching John help her into Billy's automobile, called by Billy and half her friends, "Peggy," short for "Pegasus." Still dazedly William turned back into the house and dropped himself into the nearest chair.
What a curious call it had been! Aunt Hannah had not acted like herself at all.

Not once had she said "Oh, my grief and conscience!" while the things she _had_ said--! Someway, he had never thought of Aunt Hannah as being young, and a bride.

Still, of course she must have been--once.