There flashed into her mind that sometimes most disturbing text--"Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings...." "I shouldn't like it at all," she exclaimed, "and I think you're old enough to understand that such a thing would be impossible.

Jack won't make enough money to keep a wife for years and years." She hesitated, and then added, speaking to herself rather than to Timmy, "Still, I hope with all my heart that he won't get foolish about her." "He _is_ foolish about her," said Timmy positively.

"Even Nanna thinks"-- he waited a moment, then said carefully--"that he is past praying for.

She said yesterday to Betty that there were some things prayers didn't help in at all, and that love was one of them.

She says that Jack's heart has gone out of his own keeping.