They were both from Ontario, but she died several years ago." The girl paused.

"Sometimes I think she must have had remarkable courage, I can remember her as always ready in an emergency, always tranquil." George glanced at her as she stood, finely posed, looking out across the waste of grass with gravely steady eyes, and it occurred to him that she resembled her mother in the respects she had mentioned.
Nevertheless, he felt inclined to wonder how she had got her grace and refinement.

Alan Grant was forceful and rather primitive.
"Have you spent much of your time here ?" he asked.
"No," she answered.

"My mother was once a school-teacher, and she must have had ambitious views for me.

When the farm began to prosper, I was sent to Toronto.