Children are very apt to grow thin and languid during the hot weather, and I suppose fretting after him makes it affect her rather more than usual; and just now in the holidays she has nothing else to occupy her thoughts.

She will do well enough." So Adelaide's fears were relieved, and she delayed writing, thinking that her mother surely knew best.
Mrs.Travilla sat in her cool, shady parlor, quietly knitting.

She was alone, but the glance she occasionally sent from the window seemed to say that she was expecting some one.
"Edward is unusually late to-day," she murmured half aloud.

"But there he is at last," she added, as her son appeared, riding slowly up the avenue.
He dismounted and entered the house, and in another moment had thrown himself down upon the sofa, by her side.

She looked at him uneasily; for with the quick ear of affection she had noticed that his step lacked its accustomed elasticity, and his voice its cheerful, hearty tones.