Now that she had indeed saved him, made and uplifted him beyond human expectation, she redoubled her attentions to his less responsive, less plastic brother.

Almost fiercely she was bent upon making him the moral perfectionist she had made Merle.
As one of the means to this end she regaled him often with tales of his brother's social and moral refulgence under his new name.

The severance of Merle from his former environment had been complete.

Not yet had he come back to see them.

But Winona from church and Sunday-school brought weekly reports of his progress in the esteem of the family which he now adorned.