"Yes, many times."
Miss Prudence could speak to his child without any sigh in her voice.
"Do you remember the last time he was here?"
"Yes," very gently.
"He said I would like your house and I do."
"Nannie is to marry one of Helen's friends, Marjorie; her mother thought he used to care for Helen, but Nannie is like her."
"Yes," said Marjorie, "I remember. Hollis told me."
"And my best news is about Hollis. He united with the Church a week or two ago; Mrs. Rheid says he is the happiest Christian she ever saw. He says he has not been safe since Helen died—he has been thinking ever since."
Tears were so near to Marjorie's eyes that they brimmed over; could she ever thank God enough for this? others may have been praying for him, but she knew her years of prayers were being answered. She would never feel sorrowful or disappointed about any little thing again, for what had she so longed for as this? How rejoiced his mother must be! Oh, that she might write to him and tell him how glad she was! But she could not do that. She could tell God how glad she was, and if Hollis never knew it would not matter.
"In the spring he is to go to Europe for the firm."