..."Yes, Madge, I get discontented often, and I wish for all sorts of things that we can't have ; and I suppose we are in a sense poor, but then, again, when you think of the real poverty there is even in this village, you know we are wonderfully well off."
" Well, I suppose we are, when you come down to hard common sense," returned Madge, brightening a little, and adding, after a moment, " There cannot be a better father or mother than ours in the whole world."
To this Ruth gave an emphatic assent as they swung open a wooden gate and went up a plank walk to the door of an old-fashioned yellow wooden house. They opened the...