"So you've taken to petting a servant's child, for want of something better.

Just wait until my boy comes here." Eudora tried to blush, Asenath looked unconscious, while Mrs.Richards replied: "If I ever have a grandson one half as pretty or as bright as Willie, I shall be satisfied." The doctor did not know how rapidly a lively, affectionate child will win one's love, and he thought his proud mother grown almost demented; but still, in spite of himself, he more than once raised his hand to lay it on Willie's head, pausing occasionally in his conversation to watch the gambols of the playful child sporting on the carpet.
"Willie, Willie," called Adah from a distant room, where she was looking for him.

"Willie, Willie," and as the silvery tone fell on the doctor's ears he started suddenly.
"Who is that ?" he asked, his heart throbs growing fainter as his mother replied: "That is Mrs.Markham.Singularly sweet voice for a person in humble life, don't you think so ?" The doctor's reply was cut short by the entrance of Anna, and in his joy at meeting his favorite sister and the excitement at the breakfast which followed immediately, the doctor forgot Rose Markham, who had succeeded in capturing Willie and borne him to her own room.

After breakfast was over he went with Anna to inspect the rooms which Adah had fitted for his bride.

They were very pleasant, and fastidious as he was he could find fault with nothing.