The boys swarm here all hours of the day, to Norman's delight, the summer campers make our garden the Mecca of their morning pilgrimages, and the cheerful front we put up to Fate seems to be the magnet that draws them back again in the afternoons.
"Really, our shady front porch reminds me sometimes of a popular Summer Resort piazza, it is so gay and chatty.

The ladies of the camp come over nearly every day and bring their sewing and fancy work, and Huldah and I serve tea.

It would do you good to see how mamma enjoys Mrs.Levering and Mrs.Seldon.

They're like the friends she used to have back in Plainsville, and this is the first really good social time she has had since we left there.
"Professor Levering and Professor Seldon seem to find Jack so congenial.

They talk to him by the hour on the scientific subjects he loves.