It's--it's nothing, ma'am." "I'm sorry!" exclaimed the little person.

"But, Matilda, how many more times have I got to tell you I don't like your 'ma'aming' me.

Call me Mary." "Very well--Mary." "That's right.

And now, as to Jack's mother; the paper says society is very much concerned over her condition." On the whole, Mrs.De Peyster's concern over her condition was rather more acute than society's.

But she had begun to recover in a degree, and was now, though palpitant within, making a furtive study of Mary.
Such light as there was fell full upon that small person.