His mother happened in to see

Her daughter: "Where is Mrs. B——?"

"When will she come, do you suppose?"

Son!—"

"Here she goes, and there she goes!"

"Here!—where?"—the lady in surprise

His finger followed with her eyes;

"Son! why that steady gaze and sad?

Those words,—that motion,—are you mad?

But here's your wife, perhaps she knows,