"Every one who had a cultivated mind and a clear conscience."
"I declare, Ida, you've changed so since you came to the country that I can't understand you at all."
"Do not try to any longer, mother, for you never will."
"Won't you go down to dinner?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"I don't wish to, for one thing; and I'm too ill, for another.
Send me up something, if it's not too much trouble."
"I'm going to have a doctor see you this very afternoon," said Mrs.
Mayhew, emphatically, as she left the room.
To do her justice she did send up a very nice dinner to Ida before eating her own. As far as doctors and dinners were concerned, she could do her whole duty in an emergency.
"Isn't Ida coming down?" whispered Stanton to his aunt.