"She does; but you will have to be very patient with him, Ada. It will do him a great deal of good, or it might be harm. He misses mamma more than you think."
"We none of us know what each other feel," said Ada; "that's the way with people living in the same house."
"But love and sympathy help us to understand, Ada," answered Nellie.
[CHAPTER XXVI.]
CONCLUSION.
FOUR years after the events recorded in the last chapter, two young ladies were sitting in a sunny room at Shanklin, looking out on to the sea.
On the knees of the elder of the two lay an infant, and over it bent a fond, lovely face, not altered but improved by its motherliness.
By the side of the other, stood a little roundabout of two years old, gazing up in her face, as she told her a history of a brightly coloured picture.