So, of course, I did. And he sat and listened to three whole pieces.
Now, wasn't that funny?
* * * * *
Two weeks later.
I understand it all now—everything: why the house is different, and Father, and everything. And it is Cousin Grace, and it is a love story.
Father is in love with her.
Now I guess I shall have something for this book!
It seems funny now that I didn't think of it at first. But I didn't—not until I heard Nellie and her beau talking about it. Nellie said she wasn't the only one in the house that was going to get married. And when he asked her what she meant, she said it was Dr. Anderson and Mrs. Whitney. That anybody could see it that wasn't as blind as a bat.
My, but wasn't I excited? I just guess I was. And, of course, I saw then that I had been blind as a bat. But I began to open my eyes after that, and watch—not disagreeably, you know, but just glad and interested, and on account of the book.
And I saw:
That father stayed in the house a lot more than he used to.