Well, to go ahead, after the young folks had gone I sat there alone in the parlor, in the dark, tryin' to think it out.

The housekeeper had gone over to her brother's, so I had the place to myself.

I thought and thought and the harder I thought the lonesomer the rest of my life began to look.

And yet--and yet I kept tellin' myself how selfish and foolish that was.

I knew 'twas a dead sartinty she'd be gettin' married some time.