For a man whose daily existence for years has been rubber-heeled and woolen-padded, and whose family from boyhood has stood at attention and saluted if he so much as looked at them, it must be quite a change, as things are now.

However, it'll be different, of course, when Marie is on her feet again." "Does she know at all how things are going ?" "Not very much, as yet, though I believe she has begun to worry some.
She confided to me one day that she was glad, of course, that she had two darling babies, instead of one; but that she was afraid it might be hard, just at first, to teach them both at once to be quiet; for she was afraid that while she was teaching one, the other would be sure to cry, or do something noisy." "Do something noisy, indeed!" ejaculated Aunt Hannah.
"As for the real state of affairs, Marie doesn't dream that Cyril's sacred den is given over to Teddy bears and baby blankets.

All is, I hope she'll be measurably strong before she does find it out," laughed Billy, as she rose to go..