“Well, first, Helen Northrup was just like all loving young girls, I guess––but when she didn’t find all she wanted, she took to developing, as she called it. For my part I believe when a woman finds her husband isn’t all she expected, she ought to accept her lot and make the best of it.”
“And Brace’s mother started out to make her own lot? I see.”
Kathryn nodded her head.
“Well, something like that. She took to writing. Thomas 125 Northrup didn’t know what ailed her and I don’t wonder. She should have spent herself on his career, not making one for herself. But I must say when Brace was born she stopped that nonsense but she evolved then into a mother!” Anna sniffed. “A man can share with his children, but when it comes to giving up everything, well!”
“What did he do, Aunt Anna?”
“He went away.”
“With a woman?”
“Yes.”
“One he just met when Mrs. Northrup became a mother?”
“He knew her before, but if Helen Northrup had been all she should have been to him–––”