"Mrs. Yocomb kindly took this in with me. I could scarcely live
without one, so you see I carry the shop with me everywhere, and am so
linked to my business that I can never be above it."

"I hope not, but you carry the business up with you. The shop may be,
and ought to be, thoroughly respectable. It is the narrow, mercenary
spirit of the shop that is detestable. If you had that, you would
leave your piano in New York, since here it would have no money value.
'

"You take a nice view of it."

"Is it not the true view?"

In mock surprise she answered:

"Mr. Morton, I'm from New York. Did you ever meet a lady from that
city who was not all that the poets claimed for womanhood?"




CHAPTER VI

A QUAKER TEA


"Richard Morton," said Mrs. Yocomb genially, "thee seems listening
very intently to something Emily Warren is saying, so thee may take