2/9 The woman was piling up fortunes right along, the man was spending them--spending all his wife would give him a chance at, at any rate. Mrs.Eversly Bennett was present. She was the Presbyterian parson's wife, and was working the Fosters for a charity. Talk now died a sudden death--on the Foster side. Mrs.Bennett presently discovered that her hosts were not hearing a word she was saying; so she got up, wondering and indignant, and went away. |