All he's said so far is that they've come ever so far, and that he liked riding on the cars first-rate, only mommy cried so much and wouldn't eat every time he did.

From the way he talked they suspect that the young woman may have come from the West somewhere." "She _is_ young then, Hugh ?" "Yes, not over twenty-five or so, the doctor says, but frail-looking.
He thinks there is nothing serious the matter with her, only that she's been underfed for a long time, and has suffered.

Perhaps she's denied herself proper food so as to save up enough money to make this trip." Thad shook his head as if feeling sad over the happening; for the boy had a tender heart.
"Well, I certainly hope she'll be better tomorrow, and able to tell something about herself," he went on to say, as he prepared to leave.
"And, Hugh, it was fine of your mother to refuse to let her be taken over to the Scranton Hospital, when the doctor proposed such a thing." "My mother wouldn't hear of it," Hugh told him proudly.

"Why, already she's in love with that little chap, and he's enough of a darling to make any woman with a heart want to mother him.

Both of us seem to think we may have seen him before somewhere; or else he resembles someone we've known once on a time; but, so far, we can't imagine who or where it was.