"You tried it some time, I understand ?" "Indeed we did--and would still if we had the chance," she replied.

"We think her a very exceptional young woman." Mr.Thaddler chuckled.

"She is that!" he agreed.

"Gad! How she did set things humming! They're humming yet--at our house!" He glanced rather rancorously at his wife, and Mrs.Porne wished, as she often had before, that Mr.Thaddler wore more clothing over his domestic afflictions.
"Scandalous!" Mrs.Thaddler was saying to Madam Weatherstone.
"Simply scandalous! Never in my life did I hear such absurd--such outrageous--charges against the sanctities of the home!" "There you have it!" said Mr.Thaddler, under his breath.

"Sanctity of the fiddlesticks! There was a lot of truth in what that girl said!" Then he looked rather sheepish and flushed a little--which was needless; easing his collar with a fat finger.
Madam Weatherstone and Mrs.Thaddler were at one on this subject; but found it hard to agree even so, no love being lost between them; and the former gave evidence of more satisfaction than distress at this "dangerous experiment" in the house of her friends.