I understand it all.

Lord help us! if I'd only understood sooner, how much of this might have been spared.

Why DIDN'T you tell me ?" "Mrs.Coffin--" "John--you won't mind my callin' you John.

I'm old enough, pretty nigh, to be your mother, and I've come to feel almost as if I was.

John, you've got to stay here with me.