CHAPTER XLIII

And now the Parcot family was on the other side of that deep river, with two new people in their company, two persons very young, but very definite of character. Dimny had to be the man of the family, since her father was beyond reach and her mother and her sister were unable to bestir themselves. She stayed indoors for many days, till the physician ordered her out in the air lest she fall sick. She walked awhile, without purpose or destination, feeling lonely beyond endurance. After a time she heard Noll Winsor’s …