"No, dear. I have one as you know, and this can be put to no better service than teaching you the right way. For my sake, Jack, become a good man. Shun evil company, and do unto others as you would they should do unto you. I haven't set a very good example in that way since you came here; but you have a better temper than I, and for that more is expected. Don't be tempted to tell a lie, and then you'll never feel as I have since Mr. Pratt called."
"I'll remember all you say, Aunt Nancy, and it would be a mighty ungrateful feller who'd do anything he thought would make you feel bad."
Then ensued another long interval of silence, during which the sun finished his work of painting the clouds, and had sunk behind the hills.
"It'll come pretty hard not to see you at night," Jack finally said thoughtfully.
"Will it, really?" the little woman asked eagerly.
"Of course," and Jack looked up in surprise that such a question should have been asked. "I don't s'pose I'll ever find a home as nice as this."
"And would you be willing to stay here?"
"Indeed I would if I could get work to pay my way."
"Don't you think it would be lonely when winter comes, and you would be obliged to remain a greater portion of the time in the house?"
"Not if you was here."