who clung
about her
with April
faces for
a minute,
feeling
that the
new love
had not
changed
the old.
“Now I’m
going to
tie John’s
cravat for
him, and
then to
stay a few
minutes
with
Father
quietly in
the
study,”
and Meg
ran down
to perform
these
little
ceremonies,
and then
to follow
her mother
wherever
she went,
conscious
that in
spite of
the smiles
on the
motherly
face,
there was
a secret
sorrow hid
in the
motherly
heart at
the flight
of the
