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Batchgrew had now stretched out his legs and crossed one over the other; and he was twisting his thumbs on his diaphragm. "Enid? Oh! Enid! Well, I did hear she's able to nurse the child at last." He spoke of his grand-daughter-in-law as of one among a multiplicity of women about whose condition vague rumours reached him at intervals. Mrs. Maldon breathed fervently "I'm so thankful!
Grannie's views of her grand-daughter-in-law had never altered from the first moment she set eyes on her. When Mrs. Tom came in to hear herself talk, one afternoon when Tom was away fishing, the old lady simply sat and stared at her from the depths of her big black sun-bonnet, and never opened her lips or gave any sign of interest or hearing. "Is she deaf?" asked Mrs. Tom after a while.
However, to the last he expressed great uneasiness lest after his decease his little grand-daughter-in-law might suffer in her education, of which he had intended to take the greatest care; his dislike to the mother being far enough from giving him any aversion to the child.
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