CHAPTER XVIII.
"Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice." How did Mr.Holbrook know so well what Kitty needed to help her?
His words had given her such new thoughts; some way it was all new to her, the idea that she had any duty to perform towards her mother.

She stood thinking of it that bright winter day,--stood before the little fire, and wondered how it was that she ought to commence.

She was to be alone all day.

Mrs.Stebbens, their next neighbour, had fallen down and sprained her ankle, and sent to know if Mrs.Lewis could do her promised day's work in the village.

Kitty was left in charge of the house and her sick father.