Chapter 1
_ Chapter I
Amanda Pratt‘s cottage-house was raised upon two banks above the road-level. Here and there the banks showed irregular patches of yellow-green, where a little milky-stemmed plant grew. It had come up every spring since Amanda could remember.
There was a great pink-lined shell on each side of the front door-step, and the path down over the banks to the road was bordered with smaller shells. The house was white, and the front door was dark green, with an old-fashioned knocker in the centre.
There were four front windows, and the roof sloped down to them； two were in Amanda‘s parlor, and two were in Mrs. Field‘s. She rented half of her house to Mrs. Jane Field.
There was a head at each of Amanda‘s front windows. One was hers, the other was Mrs. Babcock‘s. Amanda‘s old blond face, with its folds of yellow-gray hair over the ears and sections of the softly-wrinkled, pinky cheeks, was bent over some needle-work. So was Mrs. Babcock‘s, darkly dim with age, as

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