So that settles Cyril.

Then there's William--you know William.

Any girl would say William was a dear; but William isn't a MARRYING man.

Dad says,"-- Calderwell's voice softened a little--"dad says that William and his young wife were the most devoted couple that he ever saw; and that when she died she seemed to take with her the whole of William's heart--that is, what hadn't gone with the baby a few years before.

There was a boy, you know, that died." "Yes, I know," nodded Billy, quick tears in her eyes.