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Her life, too, is tilled full; but the experiences that come to her are neither so various nor so stimulating. There are the older children who must be hurried off to school each morning. There is the baby to be bathed and put to sleep. There are meals to be planned, and bills to be paid. So, day after day slips by with hardly a spare moment. Happy days she would not change them if she could! Only a single cloud crosses the horizon of her happiness. In the evening sometimes when they sit on their little front porch, and he tells her of the experiences of the day, of the men he has met and the topics he has discust, of the problems he has solved prob lems thnt a few years ago would have been far too large for him at such moments the cloud is there. No such experiences have come to her that day. The problems that he and his friends discuss are strange and far away. She had meant to know more about them, but there was no time. "Suppose he should outgrow me," she says to herself. 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