Now you're down here, I don't see any sense in layin' out money to go back at all.

Mandy'll send our things down." "You don't mean to stay right along here in this house, and not go back to Green River at all ?" "I don't see why it ain't jest as well.

You'd better take off your things an' lay down a little while on that sofa there, an' get rested." Lois seldom cried, but she burst out now in a piteous wail.

"O mother," sobbed she, "what does it mean?
I can't-- What does it mean?
Oh, I'm so frightened! Mother, you frighten me so! What does it mean ?" Her mother went up to her, and stood close at her side.

"Lois," said she, with trembling solemnity, "can't you trust mother ?" "O mother, I don't know! I don't know! You frighten me dreadfully." Lois shrank away from her mother as she wept.
Mrs.Field stood over her, but she did not offer to touch her.
Indeed, this New England mother and daughter rarely or never caressed each other.