Your Mother will be Matron, and there'll be a hospital staff of a housemaid and a cook--till Jim's well." "And then will Mother go on writing again ?" asked Peter.
"We shall see," said the old gentleman, with a slight, swift glance at Bobbie; "perhaps something nice may happen and she won't have to." "I love my writing," said Mother, very quickly.
"I know," said the old gentleman; "don't be afraid that I'm going to try to interfere.

But one never knows.

Very wonderful and beautiful things do happen, don't they?
And we live most of our lives in the hope of them.

I may come again to see the boy ?" "Surely," said Mother, "and I don't know how to thank you for making it possible for me to nurse him.

Dear boy!" "He kept calling Mother, Mother, in the night," said Phyllis.