“I have a mother three after four twenties; that is eight years older than yourself.”
“Can she see?”
“Better than I—she can read the smallest letters.”
“May she long be a comfort to you!”
“Thank you—are you the mistress of the house?”
“I am the grandmother.”
“Are the people in the house?”
“They are not—they are at the chapel.”
“And they left you alone?”
“They left me with my God.”