“O Cissy, Cissy; I am so sorry for thee!”
“O Bessy, but I’m so glad! Don’t say you’re sorry.”
“Why, Cissy, how canst thou be glad? Dost know what it all signifieth?”
“I know they’ve taken Father, and I’m sorry enough for that; but then Father always said they would some day. But don’t you see why I’m glad? They’ve got me too. I was always proper ’feared they’d take Father and leave me all alone with the children; and he’d have missed us dreadful! Now, you see, I can tend on him, and do everything for him; and that’s why I’m glad. If it had to be, you know.”
Elizabeth looked up at Cissy’s father, and he said in a husky voice,—
“‘Of such is the kingdom of Heaven.’”