She closed the door with more force than was necessary and then turned and deliberately studied Linda from the top of her shining black head to the tip of her shoe.
"Some," she said tersely.
"Yes, I know 'some'," said Linda, "but you know I was too young to pay much attention, and Daddy managed always to make me so happy that I never realized until he was gone that he not only had been my father but my mother as well.

You know what I mean, Katy." "Yes," said Katy deliberately, "I know what ye mean, lambie, and I'll tell ye the truth as far as I know it.

She managed your father, she pampered him, but she deceived him every day, just about little things.
She always made the household accounts bigger than they were, and used the extra money for Miss Eileen and herself--things like that.

I'm thinkin' he never knew it.

I'm thinking he loved her deeply and trusted her complete.