Dr.John listened, saying little.

He and she then told me of changes they had known: even with them all had not gone smoothly, and fortune had retrenched her once abundant gifts.

But so courageous a mother, with such a champion in her son, was well fitted to fight a good fight with the world, and to prevail ultimately.

Dr.John himself was one of those on whose birth benign planets have certainly smiled.

Adversity might set against him her most sullen front: he was the man to beat her down with smiles.