The colored driver politely touched big hat to the ladies, who leaned out a moment to look after him.
"That's Mrs.Johnson's turnout," said Eudora.

"In the winter Martin always takes Alice to church and then returns for her." "And folks say," interposed Asenath, "that if the walking is bad or the weather cold, both Alice and her mother go two miles out of their way to carry home some old woman or little child, who lives at a distance.

I've seen Alice myself with half a dozen or more of these children, and she looked as proud and happy as a queen.

Queer taste, isn't it ?" John thought it was, though he himself said: "It is like what Lily would have done, had she possessed the power and means." "Well, brother, what of Miss Alice?
Was she at church ?" Anna asked softly.

"I need not ask though, for of course she was.