“At first Mrs. Lapham tended to humor the ‘poor boy.’ As he preferred the birth and death room to the attic with Dove and Dusty, she had let him stay on. He had never in all his life slept in a bed alone – much less a whole room. He wanted to be alone. There was one trouble with his new quarters.”

“At first Mrs. Lapham tended to humor the ‘poor boy.’ As he preferred the birth and death room to the attic with Dove and Dusty, she had let him stay on. He had never in all his life slept in a bed alone – much less a whole room. He wanted to be alone. There was one trouble with his new quarters.”

— Esther Forbes