Susan Clegg and her Friend Mrs. Lathrop (Esprios Classics)

Susan Clegg and Mrs. Lathrop were next-door neighbors and bosom friends. Their personalities were extremely congenial and the theoretical relation which the younger woman bore to the elder was a further bond between them. Owing to the death of her mother some twenty years before Susan had fallen into the position of a helpless and timid young girl whose only key to the problems of life in general had been the advice of her older and wiser neighbor. As a matter of fact Mrs. Lathrop was barely twelve years the senior but she had married and as a consequence felt and was felt to be immeasurably the more ancient of the two.