In the morning, she said, we should see her three children.
She never left them, she was so afraid of their being ill, also telling mother that she would do all in her power to make my stay in Rosville pleasant and profitable.

As a mother, she could appreciate her anxiety and sadness in leaving me.

Mother thanked her warmly, and was sure that I should be happy; but I had an inward misgiving that I should not have enough to eat.
"I hear Edward," said Alice.

"Good-night." Presently a girl, the same who had taken our bonnets, came in with a pitcher of warm water and a plate of soda biscuit.

She directed us where to find the apparel she had nicely smoothed and folded; took off the handsome counterpane, and the pillows trimmed with lace, putting others of a plainer make in their places; shook down the window curtains; asked us if we would have anything more, and quietly disappeared.