That included," she confessed after a hesitation, "the doctor, the butcher's boy and the woman who comes to scrub.

It would surprise you to find what a very interesting woman she is." Trent rose from his chair and, coming round to where she sat, gave her a boyish hug of sympathy.

"You're a regular angel of a mother," he said and added playfully, while he still held her, "even then I don't see how you make it five." She put up her large white hand and smoothed his hair across his forehead.

"That's only because I made an acquaintance in the elevator yesterday," she replied.
"In the elevator! How ?" "The thing always makes me nervous, you know--I can't abide it, and I'd much rather any day go up and down the seven flights--but she met me as I started to walk and persuaded me to come inside.

Then she held my hand until I got quite to the bottom." "Indeed," said Trent suspiciously; "who was she ?" "Her name is Christina Coles, and she came from Clarke County.