As my sister said, we are quiet people.

She goes out so little that it is almost not at all, and when I go it has nearly always to be with some one else.

And then, you know that while Alice and I are originally New Yorkers, we have only been back here for two or three years.

Most of the people, really, to whose houses we go are those who knew my father.

But," she added, "it is a comfort not to be carrying about a traveling bag in one hand and a weight of responsibility in the other." "I should think," said John, laughing, "that your maid might have taken the bag, even if she couldn't carry your responsibilities." "No," she said, joining in his laugh, "that particular bag was too precious, and Eliza was one of my most serious responsibilities.