62 What about Lessons 2

ness. What an excitement this
-news caused us all! “How we
talked it over all day long. We
had many different ideas as to what
she was to be like; in fact, the elder
boys made pictures of her, which,
as it turned out, were anything but
good portraits.

How we did look at her that first
evening! She was very young, very
fairand in deep mourning. That is
my earliest impression of her. We
had a kind of unconfessed idea that
she did not take half pains enough
to make us like her. She did not
seem to care whether we did or
not—hardly, I fancy, to think about