For an hour or so after breakfast we sat in the ladies' parlor, we sewed, and we told anecdotes.

Whittier talked beautifully, almost always on the future state and his confidence in it.

Occasionally he touched upon persons.

He seems to have loved Lydia Maria Child greatly.
"When the cool of the morning was over, we went out upon the piazza, and later on we went under the trees, where, it is said, Whittier spends most of the time.
"There was little of the old-time theology in his views; his faith has been always very firm.

Mr.Cartland asked me one day if I really felt there was any doubt of the immortality of the soul.