There was one thing about it, your husband wa'n't never extravagant, though, was he?
Thomas Maxwell couldn't say his son wasted his money, whatever else he said.

Your husband was always prudent, wa'n't he, Esther ?" "Yes, I always thought Edward Maxwell was prudent," returned Mrs.
Field.
Lois, staring soberly and miserably out of the window, saw just then a stout girlish figure, leant to one side with the weight of a valise, pass hurriedly out of the yard.

She wondered if it was Flora Maxwell, and watched the pink flowers in her hat and the blue folds of her dress out of sight down the street.
"I guess your husband took after his father a little; I guess he was a little savin'," said Mrs.Maxwell.

"I know Edward looked kind of scared when he came over one night an' saw that image just after we'd got it set up, an' he asked how much it cost.

It did cost considerable.