Adams.
"If these children can come here for mere pleasure, it certainly
is not too stormy for me to go out on an errand of duty," answered
Aunt Jane, with dignity. "And, Isabel, I really think it is your
duty, too, as a mother, to go to these meetings. They are very
helpful and improving, and would be a great source of comfort to
you in training Polly."
"Perhaps they might be, if I went," replied her sister gently;
"but you can never make me believe, Jane, that I ought to go away
and leave Polly alone, one night in every week."
"Don't go, Mrs. Adams," implored Alan, in an undertone.
"I haven't the least idea of it, Alan," she answered, as the door
closed behind Aunt Jane. "People don't all think alike about these
things, and your mother and I both believe that we can do more
good by staying at home, and trying to know and understand our own
boys and girls, than by leaving them while we tell somebody else
how to bring up her children that we have never seen." And Mrs.
Adams gave a little nod of conviction, as Katharine moved her
chair back to the table, saying heartily,--
"I quite agree with you, auntie."
"Perhaps if you'd always been to the meetings, Jerusalem, I'd have
been more of a success," remarked Polly pensively, as she settled
herself more comfortably with her head in Jean's lap.
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