"You've heard me talk of him more than a few times; and even expressed the wish that I might introduce him to you.

He's interested in nearly everything that concerns me, and we seem to work together like a well-ordered team, even if we do have an occasional little spat, which is to be expected." Madame Pangborn loved boys, as has been said before.

She understood them wonderfully well, too, considering that she had never had one of her own.

So she laughed at what Hugh said.
"I'm doubly glad you have dropped in to see me today, Hugh," she told him, "for more reasons than one.

In the first place, I want to hear at first hand just what did happen out there at that terrible mill-pond; and how you managed to save that little boy of my Sarah from drowning.
He sometimes comes here with her to spend a part of a day, and I like to talk with him, he seems so original, so bright, and so curious about everything I possess, too." "Oh! it didn't amount to very much, so far as we were concerned, I mean," Hugh expostulated; "but since Sarah has told you about it, I suppose I might as well spin the whole story.