But, there, you baby! What am I saying?
Come, come, my dear, just forget it.

It's nothing you should bother your little head over now.

Wait till you're older." Till I'm older, indeed! How I hate to have folks talk to me like that! And they do--they do it all the time.

As if I was a child now, when I'm almost standing there where the brook and river meet! But that was just the kind of talk I got, everywhere, nearly every time I asked any one what a divorce was.

Some laughed, and some sighed.