She cried a little, an' sighed a lot, an' said she'd try, she really would try to help her husband in every way she could; an' she wouldn't ask him another once, not once, to stay with her.

An' she wouldn't look sour an' cross, either.

She'd promise she wouldn't.

An' she'd try, she'd try, oh, so hard, to be proper an' dignified.
"She got up then an' went out of the room so quiet an' still you wouldn't know she was movin'.

But I heard her up in her room cryin' half an hour later, when I stopped a minute at her door to see if she was there.