Mrs.
Hanson wept while she related Marian's history, which in substance was exactly what Marian herself had told Bud.

Mrs.Hanson, however, told how Marian had fought to save her father and Ed, and how she had married Lew Morris as a part of her campaign for honesty and goodness.

Now she was down at Little Lost cooking for a gang of men, said Mrs.Hanson, when she ought to be out in the world singing for thousands and her in silks and diamonds instead of gingham dresses and not enough of them.
"Marian Collier is the sweetest thing that ever grew up in this country," the old lady sniffled.

"She's one in a thousand and when she was off to school she showed that she wasn't no common trash.

She wanted to be an opery singer, but then her mother died and Marian done what looked to be her duty.