The look of her face in the lamplight shocked him.
"Why, Mrs.Coffin!" he exclaimed.

"What IS it?
You look as if you had been through some dreadful experience." "Maybe I have," she replied.

"Maybe I have.

Experiences like that come to us all in this life, to old folks and young, and we have to bear 'em like men and women.

That's the test we're put to, Mr.Ellery, and the way we come through the fire proves the stuff we're made of.