What a companion she'd be for mother! that is, if I could keep them from comparing notes for ever about their diseases.

That's the worst of putting invalid old women together," laughed Mercy with a kindly, merry little laugh.
Mr.Allen had visited Penfield only once.

When he and Stephen were boys at school together, he had passed one of the short vacations at Stephen's house.

He remembered very little of Stephen's father and mother, or of their way of life.

He was at the age when house and home mean little to boys, except a spot where shelter and food are obtained in the enforced intervals between their hours of out-door life.