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who used to be made welcome at the Little
House, but who were not on visiting terms

with her new friends, she suffered anguish.
And the worst of it was that their

troubles— if troubles they could be called—

were no longer borne in common. When
he complained to her that the young folk

took the law into their own hands, she said

it was ' ridiculous to make mountaitis out
of molehills j ■ and when she spoke to him

of her social anxieties and dilemmas, he said

hotly that, however desirable their acquain­
tance might be, the people who had neglccted

them in the days of the Little House might

now, for all he cared, 1 go hang.' And
so, for the first time in their married lives,

the two went different ways, and, when
they met, uncomfortably bickered.

And what a noisy house it became !

Each one seemed to go his or her own way,
to do what he or she liked best, and at

breakfast, lunch and dinner time to recount
experiences and intentions in a very

whirl-wind of uproarious talk. It was,