Ill-temper cannot live there, the very flowers smile it away.

The atmosphere itself acts like "laughing gas." So the house fairly rings with merry laughter from elderly staid women equally as from the younger ones, whose contact with serious and saddening life has not been so paralysing to joyous emotions.
It did us good to hear such jolly laughter from throats and organs that, but for Singholm, must have rusted and decayed.
One of our trustees was with us, it being his first visit to the home.
I know that he was surprised at the size, the beauty, the comfort and refinement of the whole place.

The garden filled him with delight, the skill of the architect in planning the building, together with the style, gave him increased pleasure.
The great drawing-room and the equally large dining-room rather astonished him.

The little bedrooms he declared perfect.

But what astonished him most of all was the unaffected happiness of the women; for this I do not think he was prepared.