They were on the veranda together, pacing slowly back and forth, each with an arm about the other's waist.
"Oh, Mamma Vi, isn't it just delightful to be at home again?" exclaimed Lulu.
"Yes, indeed! when the home is such an one as ours, and with such a man as your father at the head of affairs," returned Violet. "Lu dear, I'm so glad that you and all his children love him as you do, though really I do not see how any one of you could help it."
"Nor do I, Mamma Vi; and I'm very glad that you love him so too; that makes me love you even better than I could if you didn't appreciate him so highly. But we can't love him so dearly without loving one another; can we?"
"No, certainly not; I am very fond of all five of his children as well as of their father," Violet replied, with her low, sweet laugh.
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