“I heard Mrs. Brown talking to somebody, and she said people who are of no use in the world had better be out of it.”
“But that was a hard saying; besides, do you not think that the Lord knows when it is best to take any one out of the world?”
“You’ve got me there,” said Owlet. “I give in.”
“That is right.”
“And anybody who would not give in when they are wrong is not possessed of common sense,” concluded Owlet.
At eight o’clock Mr. Merritt came to spend his last evening with Roma.
Owlet was allowed to sit up with them.
“I wonder what you will do with this child?” inquired the lawyer in an aside to Roma.
“I shall do with her, if I should be permitted to keep her, just what I should do with a little orphan sister, if I were blessed with one.”
“Well, now, Roma, my child, I did not come here to loaf. What can I do for you in the way of preparation for to-morrow? Any trunk to cord up, or to sit down on, or to be dispatched to the express office? In short, anything to be done that I can do for you?” inquired Mr. Merritt.