"I've simply been trying to persuade him to do as much toward securing the future of you two as Mr.
Whitney is willing to do.

Don't be absurd, Hiram.

You know better than to talk that way." Hiram looked steadily at her.

"You've been travelin' about, 'Tilda," he said, "gettin' together a lot of newfangled notions.

Ellen and I and our children stick to the old way." And he looked at Arthur, then at Adelaide.
Their faces gave him a twinge at the heart.