'I always speak of it as hearing,' she added, 'for it is quite as quick, when there is light enough.

You know that, since you have talked with her.' 'Yes.

But in the dark, how do you make her understand ?' 'She can generally read what I say by laying her hand on my lips; but besides that, we have the deaf and dumb alphabet, and she can feel my fingers as I make the letters.' 'You have been with her a long time, I suppose,' Margaret said.
'Since she was three years old.' 'California is a beautiful country, isn't it ?' asked Margaret after a pause.
She put the question idly, for she was thinking how hard it must be to teach deaf and dumb children.

Miss More's answer surprised her.
'I have never been there.' 'But, surely, Senator Moon lived in San Francisco,' Margaret said.
'Yes.

But the child was sent to New England when she was three, and never went back again.