Mother moves so quietly now, everywhere, and is so tired, 'most all the time.) But she wasn't tired then, Nurse says--not a mite.
"But how did Father act ?" I demanded.

"Wasn't he displeased and scandalized and shocked, and everything ?" Nurse shrugged her shoulders and raised her eyebrows--the way she does when she feels particularly superior.

Then she said: "Do?
What does any old fool--beggin' your pardon an' no offense meant, Miss Mary Marie--but what does any man do what's got bejuggled with a pretty face, an' his senses completely took away from him by a chit of a girl?
Well, that's what he did.

He acted as if he was bewitched.

He followed her around the house like a dog--when he wasn't leadin' her to something new; an' he never took his eyes off her face except to look at us, as much as to say: 'Now ain't she the adorable creature ?'" "My father did that ?" I gasped.