Oh mamma! it must be Mary's young man--he does sometimes come in the evening." "Mary's young man, child ?" Mrs.Goddard's heart leaped.

Her cook's name was Mary, as well as her own.

Nellie naturally never associated the name with her mother, as she never heard anybody call her by it.
"Yes mamma.

Don't you know?
The postman--the man with the piebald horse." The explanation was necessary, as Mrs.Goddard rarely received any letters and probably did not know the postman by sight.
"At this time of night!" exclaimed Mrs.Goddard.

"It is too bad.