3/9 Perhaps you and I may go there together some day. "I've asked her how soon she would think us old enough to go, and she said never! Of course we don't expect she would ever bear to go to the place where he was killed; but Phebe would love to go, and so would I.We've saved enough money, Phebe and I; and my mother will not let me say one word about it. She says I am never, never to think of such a thing." "She is afraid of losing you as well as him," replied Mr.Clifford; "but when you are more of a man she will let you go. You are all she has." "Except Hilda," said the boy fondly, "and I know she loves me most of all. I do not wonder she cannot bear to hear about my father. |