Dorcas Tallisker Quotes

“The first thing was their kindness. How amazingly widespread it was. They had taken responsibility for her, nursed and clothed her. Someone had given up her bed, probably Beatie; no one had complained when she was snappish and rude about Dovey’s best clothes, about the lack of sanitation; no one had condemned her unsympathetic attitude towards Gibbie.”

““Stay awhile with us,′ begged Dovey the next day, ‘for you’re one of the family, Abby, true!’ ‘No,’ said Abigail. ‘I have to go home; you know that.‘”