Aunt Anne's very quiet, but she makes you feel quite helpless sometimes.

And perhaps one will get more and more helpless the longer one stays.

I don't want to be helpless ever--nor religious!" she ended.
"Why, that's just my position," he continued eagerly.

"I came home as happily as anything.

I'd almost forgotten all that had been when I was a boy, how I was baptized and thought I belonged to God and was so proud and stuck up.