Guess she's all right." "I guess so, too," said Henry White.

Both nodded reassuringly at Maria, who felt mournfully comforted.
"Shouldn't wonder if she'd saved something, too," said Mr.White.
When he and his son were on their way back to the market, driving in the white-covered wagon with "J.

White & Son" on the sides thereof, they agreed that women were queer.
"There's your mother and Lillian, they mean all right," said Jonas White, "but they were getting that poor young one all stirred up." Maria never settled with herself whether the Whites thought she had a pleasant prospect before her or the reverse, but they did not certainly influence her to love Miss Ida Slome any more.
Miss Slome was so kind to Maria, in those days, that it really seemed to her that she ought to love her.

She and her father were invited to take tea at Miss Slome's boarding-house, and after tea they sat in the little parlor which the teacher had for her own, and Miss Slome sang and played to them.

She had a piano.