Why don't you tell the lawyers, or someone, that it must have been that person?
There wasn't anyone that would have hurt Father on purpose, was there ?" "I don't know--I don't know.

The man under him who got Daddy's place when he--when the awful thing happened--he was always jealous of your Father because Daddy was so clever and everyone thought such a lot of him.

And Daddy never quite trusted that man." "Couldn't we explain all that to someone ?" "Nobody will listen," said Mother, very bitterly, "nobody at all.

Do you suppose I've not tried everything?
No, my dearest, there's nothing to be done.

All we can do, you and I and Daddy, is to be brave, and patient, and--" she spoke very softly--"to pray, Bobbie, dear." "Mother, you've got very thin," said Bobbie, abruptly.
"A little, perhaps." "And oh," said Bobbie, "I do think you're the bravest person in the world as well as the nicest!" "We won't talk of all this any more, will we, dear ?" said Mother; "we must bear it and be brave.