I wouldn't let Grandmother Brady talk about my father, and you can't talk so about mother.

She was my mother, and I loved her, and so did father love her; and she worked hard to keep him and take care of him when he drank years and years, and didn't have any money to help her.

Mother was only eighteen when she married father, and you ought not to blame her.

She didn't have a nice home like this.

But she was good and dear, and now she is dead.