But they say his widow isn't doing much to keep it up.

Tumble flighty woman, so they say.
Young, you know, just about young enough to be the old Doc.'s daughter--" "But--" "Oh! Esther ain't her child.

Esther's ma died when she was a baby.

There is a child, though, Jane they call her, a pindling little thing.

But p'r'aps you've met Jane too ?" "I did not say--" "No, but I thought likely if you'd met one, you'd have met the other.
Jane's nearly always hanging around Esther 'cept in school hours.