Flo stood before the blaze, warming her hands.

Lee Stanton leaned against the mantel, with eyes on her, and every line of his lean, hard face expressed his devotion to her.
Hutter was taking his seat at the head of the table.

"Come an' get it--you-all," he called, heartily.

Mrs.Hutter's face beamed with the spirit of that home.

And lastly, Carley saw Glenn waiting for her, watching her come, true in this very moment to his stern hope for her and pride in her, as she dragged her weary, spent body toward him and the bright fire.
By these signs, or the effect of them, Carley vaguely realized that she was incalculably changing, that this Carley Burch had become a vastly bigger person in the sight of her friends, and strangely in her own a lesser creature..