She herself, for all her share in the life of Jacques' people, their birth, their death, and the hard interval between, is nothing more to the dwellers on Misty Ridge than "Mrs. Teacher"--sometimes "Ole Mrs. Teacher," now that the glow of her hair is touched with gray, and beautiful lines are growing about her beautiful eyes. But it is a name she loves above all other names--"Ole Mrs. Teacher." She wears it far more proudly than she ever wore her former title of "the Madam."