16/17 'Begin by believing that I will try to make you happy, and that I am prepared to love you, Florence. Good-bye! Don't stay here, now.' Again she pressed her to her breast she had spoken in a rapid manner, but firmly--and Florence saw her rejoin them in the other room. And now Florence began to hope that she would learn from her new and beautiful Mama, how to gain her father's love; and in her sleep that night, in her lost old home, her own Mama smiled radiantly upon the hope, and blessed it. |