"You haven't gone and got heart trouble too, have you ?" She stood there trembling, and then, wheeling suddenly, ran back into the house, and went to my mother.

On her knees, the Princess buried her face in mother's breast and said: "Oh Mrs.Stanton! Oh, if I only could help you!" She began to cry as if something inside her had broken, and she'd shake to pieces.
Mother stared above her head at father, with her eyebrows raised high, and he waved his hand toward me.

Mother turned to me, but already she had put her arms around the Princess, and was trying to hold her together.
"What did you tell her that made her come back ?" she asked sternlike.
"You forgot to explain that the man was so young, and you wanted to keep it a secret and give him another chance," I said.

"I just asked her not to tell." Mother looked at father and all the colour went from her face, and she began to shake.

He stared at her, then he opened her door and lifted the Princess with one arm, and mother with the other, and helped them into mother's room, stepped back and closed the door.