You know how foolish she is, and there's no telling what fancy she might take." "Eudora," said Mrs.Richards in a low tone, "it might be well for Anna to have a maid, and this one is certainly different from the others who have applied." "But the child.

We can't be bothered with a child.

Evidently he is not governed at all, and brother's wife coming by and by." This last caught Adah's ear and changed the whole current of her thoughts and wishes.

Greatly to Mrs.Richards' surprise, she said abruptly, "If I cannot see Miss Anna, I need not trouble you longer.
When does the next train go west ?" Adah's voice never faltered, though her heart seemed bursting from her throat, for she had not the most remote idea as to where the next train going west would take her.

She had reached a point when she no longer thought or reasoned; she would leave Terrace Hill; that was all she knew, except that in her mind there was a vague fancy or hope that she might meet Irving Stanley again.