"A stepfather to an unmarried girl, both eyeing each other for a chance to find fault--if you please, no thank you!" "That means you won't get married till I'm out of the way ?" asked Kitty, with a look which was as much touched with myrrh as with mirth.
"It means I wouldn't get married till you are married, anyway," was the complacent answer.
"Is there any one special that--" "Don't talk nonsense.

Since your father died I've only thought of his child and mine, and I've not looked where I might.

Instead, I've done my best to prove that two women could live and succeed without a man to earn for them; though of course without the pension it couldn't have been done in the style we've done it.

We've got our place!" There is a dignity attached to a pension which has an influence quite its own, and in the most primitive communities it has an aristocratic character which commands general respect.

In Askatoon people gave Mrs.
Tynan a better place socially because of her pension than they would have done if she had earned double the money which the pension brought her.
"Everybody has called on us," she added with reflective pride.
"Principally since Mr.Crozier came," added Kitty.