She wanted to, but she doesn't feel she can leave the boardin'-house with nobody to look after it." Miss Parker seemed pleased, for some reason or other.
"I don't wonder," she said, heartily.

"She shouldn't be left all alone herself, either.

If that ungrateful, selfish Orphan's Home minx is selfish enough to go and leave her, all the more reason my brother shouldn't.

Whatever else us Parkers may be, we ain't selfish.

We think about others.