Till then I would do well to return to Iowa and make it up with Richard.

That was what she said, and it made me very angry, so that I was resolved to leave her the next day; but I was sick in the morning, and sick some weeks following, so that I could not leave her house.
"She nursed me carefully and tried to be kind, but I could see that my being there was a great annoyance to her.

Her husband had an aunt--a rich, eccentric old lady--who came sometimes to see me, and seemed interested in me.

Forgive me, auntie, if it was wrong.

I dropped the name of Markham and took yours, asking Abby to call me simply Miss Bigelow to her friends.