Drymouth.Jeremy,sleepy
though he
was,rushed
to his
mother,held
her
hand,explained
his black
eye,and
then
suddenly,in
a way that
he
had,fell
asleep,there
as he
was,and
had to be
carried up
to bed.
When he
awoke next
morning
his first
thought
was of his
mother.He
did not
know
why;she
was so
definitely
part of
the
background
of his
daily life
that he
felt too
sure of
her
continual
and
abiding
presence
to need
deliberate
thought of
her.But
this
