We never saw money, never went shopping.

Mother was indifferent in regard to much of the business of ordinary life which children are taught to understand.

Father and mother both stopped at the same point with us, but for a different reason; father, because he saw nothing beyond the material, and mother, because her spiritual insight was confused and perplexing.

But whatever a household may be, the Destinies spin the web to their will, put of the threads which drop hither and thither, floating in its atmosphere, white, black, or gray.
From the time we moved, however, we were a stirring, cheerful family, independent of each other, but spite of our desultory tastes, mutual habits were formed.

When the want of society was felt, we sought the dining-room, sure of meeting others with the same want.