"I don't know what to do.
How's she ever going to get married!" "If she'd only been a boy!" said Mrs.Warham, on her knees, taking the unevenness out of the front of the skirt.

"A girl has to suffer for her mother's sins." Ruth made no reply.

She smiled to herself--the comment of the younger generation upon the older.

Sin it might have been; but, worse than that, it was a stupidity--to let a man make a fool of her.

Lorella must have been a poor weak-minded creature.
By dinner time Ruth had completely soothed and smoothed her vanity.