Her casual but proud-minded family wiped her off the proud family slate.

She brought Phyllis into the world and five years afterwards found herself be-Gedged out of existence.

They were struggling people in those days, and before her death my wife used to employ her, when she could, for household sewing and whatnot.

And tiny Phyllis, in a childless home, became a petted darling.

When my great loneliness came upon me, it was a solace to have the little dainty prattling thing to spend an occasional hour in my company.