Why should they?
But it took strength to shoulder a man like that.

What fun he and her father must have had together! And Cutty had loved her mother! That made Kitty exquisitely tender for a moment.

All alone, at the age when new friendships were impossible.

A lovable man like that going down through life alone! Census taker of alien undesirables; a queer occupation for a man so famous as Cutty.

Patriotism--to plunge into that seething revolutionary scum to sort the dangerous madmen from the harmless mad-men.