'Your father was John Platt, who enlisted in one of the line regiments--the 24th, wasn't it?
'That must be Grace's child,' said old Mrs. Platt, coming up and joining in the conversation.
Two years ago she had come with her child to make her home amongst her husband's people, and though at first her mother-in-law, Mrs. Platt, was inclined to look upon her contemptuously as a poor, delicate, useless creature, time proved to her that for steady, quiet work no one could eclipse her daughter-in-law.