Don't you see it will not be for long ?" And Hannah brightened a little.
"But how in the wide wurrld," she asked, "will you ever do for the children, me gone ?" "Oh, I'll manage," said Edith cheerfully.

And that afternoon she began at once to rearrange her whole intricate schedule, with Hannah and school both omitted, to fit her children into the house.

But instead of this, as the days wore on, nerve-racking days of worry and toil, sternly and quite unconsciously she fitted the house to her children.

And nobody made her aware of the fact.

All summer long in the mountains, everyone by tacit consent had made way for her, had deferred to her grief in the little things that make up the everyday life in a home.