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Winslow. "But not enough to comprehend
thoroughly. Did she convince you that you are mistaken?"
"No. But this she did do," said Mr. Minturn. "She battered the walls of
what I had believed to be unalterable decision, until she made this
opening: I must go into our affairs again. I have got to find out where my
wife is, and what she is doing; and if the things Miss Leslie thinks are
true. Margaret, I thought it was _settled_. I was happy, in a way;
actually happy! No Biblical miracle ever seemed to me half so wonderful as
the change in the boys."
"The difference in them is quite as much of a marvel as you think it,"
agreed Mrs. Winslow.
"It is greater than I would have thought possible in any circumstances,"
said Mr. Minturn. "Do they ever mention their mother to you?"
"Incidentally," she replied, "just as they do maids, footman or governess,
in referring to their past life. They never ask for her, in the sense of
wanting her, that I know of. Malcolm resembles her in appearance and any
one could see that she liked him best.


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