But she believed that years would ripen him, and that the time would come when she would get along as well with him as she had with his father and grandfather.
She was not supposed to be a rich woman, and she had not been much engaged in suits at law, but it was surprising how much legal business Miss Panney had, as well as business of many other kinds.
When Mrs.Tolbridge had left her, the old lady put away her scrap-book, and prepared to go downstairs.
"It is a great pity," she said to herself, "that one of the bodily ailments which is bound to show itself in the family in the course of the spring, should not have turned up to-day.

I want very much to talk to the doctor about the young man at Cobhurst, and I cannot drive about the country in such weather as this.".