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Mrs.
Alden
,
looking
up
at
the
moment
,
noticed
this
,
and
,
mistaking
it
for
embarrassment
,
asked
teasingly
:
"
You
like
him
,
do
n't
you
?
"
"
Yes
,
I
do
,
Mother
,
"
Roberta
replied
,
simply
and
honestly
.
"
What
about
him
?
Does
he
like
you
?
"
Roberta
crossed
to
the
kitchen
window
.
Below
it
at
the
base
of
the
slope
which
led
to
the
springhouse
,
and
the
one
most
productive
field
of
the
farm
,
were
ranged
all
the
dilapidated
buildings
which
more
than
anything
else
about
the
place
bespoke
the
meager
material
condition
to
which
the
family
had
fallen
.
In
fact
,
during
the
last
ten
years
these
things
had
become
symbols
of
inefficiency
and
lack
.
Somehow
at
this
moment
,
bleak
and
covered
with
snow
,
they
identified
themselves
in
her
mind
as
the
antithesis
of
all
to
which
her
imagination
aspired
.
And
,
not
strangely
either
,
the
last
was
identified
with
Clyde
.
Somberness
as
opposed
to
happiness
--
success
in
love
or
failure
in
love
.
Assuming
that
he
truly
loved
her
now
and
would
take
her
away
from
all
this
,
then
possibly
the
bleakness
of
it
all
for
her
and
her
mother
would
be
broken
.
But
assuming
that
he
did
not
,
then
all
the
results
of
her
yearning
,
but
possibly
mistaken
,
dreams
would
be
not
only
upon
her
own
head
,
but
upon
those
of
these
others
,
her
mother
's
first
.
She
troubled
what
to
say
,
but
finally
observed
:
"
Well
,
he
says
he
does
.
"
"
Do
you
think
he
intends
to
marry
you
?
"
Mrs.
Alden
asked
,
timidly
and
hopefully
,
because
of
all
her
children
her
heart
and
hopes
rested
most
with
Roberta
.
"
Well
,
I
'll
tell
you
,
Mamma
...
"
The
sentence
was
not
finished
,
for
just
then
Emily
,
hurrying
in
from
the
front
door
,
called
:
"
Oh
,
Gifs
here
.
He
came
in
an
automobile
.
Somebody
drove
him
over
,
I
guess
,
and
he
's
got
four
or
five
big
bundles
.
"
And
immediately
after
came
Tom
with
the
elder
brother
,
who
,
in
a
new
overcoat
,
the
first
result
of
his
career
with
the
General
Electric
Company
in
Schenectady
,
greeted
his
mother
affectionately
,
and
after
her
,
Roberta
.
"
Why
,
Gifford
,
"
his
mother
exclaimed
.
"
We
did
n't
expect
you
until
the
nine
o'clock
.
How
did
you
get
here
so
soon
?
"
"
Well
,
I
did
n't
think
I
would
be
.
I
ran
into
Mr.
Rearick
down
in
Schenectady
and
he
wanted
to
know
if
I
did
n't
want
to
drive
back
with
him
.
I
see
old
Pop
Myers
over
at
Trippetts
Mills
has
got
the
second
story
to
his
house
at
last
,
Bob
,
"
he
turned
and
added
to
Roberta
:
"
I
suppose
it
'll
be
another
year
before
he
gets
the
roof
on
.
"
