Sylvester regarded him sympathetically.
"You mustn't take your nephew's and niece's treatment too much to heart," he said.
"Oh, I don't.

That is, I pretend I don't.

And I do try not to.

But I keep thinkin', thinkin', and wonderin' if 'twould have been better if I hadn't gone there to live at all.

Hi hum! a man of my age hadn't ought to mind what a twenty-year-old girl says, or does; 'specially when her kind, advisin' friends have shown her how she's been deceived and hypocrit-ted.