“Why not? There can be no true life in any household where it is forbidden to any to lift the latch.”
The clock-cleaner could not find the key of the clock. It had disappeared. He pounded on the case and said:
“It sounds hollow.”
Thanksgiving day came, and that day was supposed to bring all of the family home.
Mis’ Overfield watched the people coming, and she said to her little nurse Liddy as she waited:
“Have they all come, Liddy?”
“No, mum; not all.”
“Who is there to come?”
“Annie, mum.”