8/20 How much her mother must have suffered from the separation!" "Indeed you may say so, ma'am. It came near to breaking her heart." "I don't wonder," said sympathizing Mrs.Harding. "I can judge of that by my own feelings. I don't know what I should do, if Ida were to be taken from me." At this point in the conversation, the cooper entered the house. He had come home on an errand. |