By good fortune she found blind Nora hemming napkins and in a mood to converse.

Nora was an especially neat seamstress, but required some one to thread her needles.
Mary the cook had been doing this, but now Mrs.Clark sat down beside Nora to "hev a little talk" and keep the needles supplied with thread.
She learned a good deal about the nieces, for old Nora could not praise them enough.

They were always sweet and kind to her and she loved to talk about them.

They were all rich, too, or would be; for their uncle had no children of his own and could leave several millions to each one when he died.
"An' they're so simple, too," said the old woman; "nothin' cityfied ner stuck-up about any on 'em, I kin tell ye.

They dresses as fine as the Queen o' Sheba, Tom says; but they romp 'round just like they was borned in the country.