She is almost like my own....

She was a little child when the news came that Sandy, my youngest boy, was gone....

I'm reticent too, and I couldn't mention his name, or speak about my sorrow, and Jean seemed to understand.

She used to garden beside me, and chatter about her baby affairs, and ask me questions, and I sometimes thought she saved my reason...." Pamela sat silent.

It was well known that no one dared mention her sons' names to Mrs.Hope.Figuratively she removed her shoes from off her feet, for she felt that it was holy ground.
Mrs.Hope went on.