"Does anybody know about the new people on the corner?"
"Only what papa said, that it's a woman and her son. She's a widow, her husband was killed in the Massawan bridge accident, and the son terribly hurt."
"Yes, I saw them yesterday," Hubert said.
"What are they like?" Hope and Theodora asked in a breath.
"They were driving past the post-office, when I went after the noon mail. They went by so fast I couldn't see much, though."
"How did you know who it was?" Theodora inquired, rolling over till she could look up into her brother's face.
"Mr. Saunders asked me if I knew they were our new neighbors. They came Tuesday, but they stayed at the hotel till yesterday morning, while the house was being put in order."
"What did they look like?" Teddy demanded.
"Like all the rest of the world, as far as I could see."