"'Well,' I said, 'I have just had the boss sleep and feel so much better. I hope you had a good nap.'
"Mrs. Lenair said, 'I have had a pleasant time lying here, though I did not sleep any.'
"'Why,' I said, 'I could not lie that way. If I was not sleeping I would be nervous, and want to be sitting up or moving about.'
"Then I said to her: 'I should think you must get terribly lonesome up at your place, your son having been away so much, and you all alone with no one to talk to.'
"She said: 'I haven't known what it was to be lonesome since I have lived on the place.'
"'Why,' I said, 'I would not live like you do for ten dollars a day.' She smiled, and said, 'You could not.'
"'I don't see how you can stand it,' I said, 'for it is all I can do to keep from being lonesome here with Dan, and a team to take me anywhere. I have more callers in a week than you have in a year. I am fond of company and so is Dan.'
"Mrs. Lenair said: 'All you have just said, Mrs. Cullom, shows your life, your world; we all have different worlds,' she added.
"I could hardly understand just what she meant, so I changed the subject and thought I would talk to her about Penloe.
"'Is he home now,' I asked.