"Now," he said, "I 'll tell you what I want to do; I 'm going to buy the farm for you and I 'm going to get a couple of cows or so, a yard full of chickens, a horse and a porker, and start you fair."
"But why should you do this?" she demanded.
"I don't exactly know," he answered. "But I 'm going to do for you so far as I can what Jim would have done if he had lived."
"But you did n't know Jim!"
"I did n't, but I know him now. The kids introduced me."
"He was a good man—a very good man, Peter."
"Yes, he must have been that. I am glad that I can do something to finish a good man's work."
"You are rich? You can afford this?"
"Yes, I can afford it. But I don't feel that I 'm giving,—I 'm getting. It would not be possible for me to use my money with greater satisfaction to myself."
"Oh, you are generous!"