The house and farm always had belonged to his wife.

She had supported George by her own work all of his life.

She could not save money, but she had the rarer faculty of making it.

She had raised fine fruit and flowers for the Philadelphia market; she had traded in high breeds of poultry and cattle, and had invested her earnings shrewdly.

With these successes she had been able to provide George with money to spend freely at college.