Mahailey, when they are alone, sometimes addresses Mrs. Wheeler as “Mudder”; “Now, Mudder, you go upstairs an’ lay down an’ rest yourself.”  Mrs. Wheeler knows that then she is thinking of Claude, is speaking for Claude.  As they are working at the table or bending over the oven, something reminds them of him, and they think of him together, like one person:  Mahailey will pat her back and say, “Never you mind, Mudder; you’ll see your boy up yonder.”  Mrs. Wheeler always feels that God is near,—­but Mahailey is not troubled by any knowledge of interstellar spaces, and for her He is nearer still,—­directly overhead, not so very far above the kitchen stove.

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