“Y—es,” said Mrs. Marley, “but then—”
“But then, what?”
“That was different.”
Marley smiled.
“Had father entered the ministry yet?” he said presently.
“Yes, we were married in his first year. He had been teaching school, and the fall he was admitted to the conference he was sent out to the Gibsonburg circuit in Green County. We were married in the spring.”
Her face flushed, and she turned the pages of her paper with a dreamy deliberation.
“Ah, but your father was a handsome young man, Glenn!” she said presently.
“He’s handsome yet,” Marley replied with the pride he always felt in his father. And then he asked:
“Did he have any money?”