"She makes me think of that verse in 'Mother Goose,'" said Jack. "'Sugar and spice and everything nice.' Doesn't she you, sister?"
"No," said Bethany, with an amused smile. "Lowell has described her:
'So circled lives she with love's holy light,
That from the shade of self she walketh free.'"
"I don't 'zactly understand," said Jack, with a puzzled expression.
She explained it, and he repeated it over and over, until he had it firmly fixed in his mind.
Then they went back to the dictation exercises. It was almost dark when they had another caller. Mr. Marion stopped at the door on his way home to dinner.
"I have good news for you, Bethany," he said, with his face aglow with eager sympathy. "Did Ray tell you?"
"About the house?" she said. "Yes. I've been on a mountain-top all day because of it."
"O, I don't mean that!" he exclaimed, hastily. "It's better than that. I mean about Porter & Edmunds."