"And that's why we are going up there on our own?"
"Don't, Roger; you have no idea how loud you speak."
"You never say so except when I am going to say that one little word."
"Well, don't say it, then, or say it very, very quietly."
"Well, what was the queer thing?"
"When they got to the house, mother wanted to take father right off into the little room; she had been telling him about it, just as I am going to tell you, and she had said that of all the rooms, that one was the only one that seemed pleasant to her. She described the furniture and the books and paper and everything, and said it was on the north side, between the front and back room. Well, when they went to look for it, there was no little room there; there was only a shallow china-closet. She asked her sisters when the h
