I'm going upstairs to get a letter I want posted.

Will you take it to the mail for me ?" Then Mrs.Hatton left the room and John looked wistfully after her.

"It is always so," he thought.

"If I name children, she goes.

What does it mean ?" He looked inquiringly into his mother's face when she returned and she smiled cheerfully back, but it was with the face of an angry woman she watched him to the gate, muttering words she would not have spoken had there been anyone to hear them nearby.