But evidently, whatever rebellion his daughters had carried through against him, he had kept his dominion over this gentle spirit unbroken.

March did not choose to make any response, but to let him continue, if he would, entirely upon his own impulse.
II.
A silence followed, of rather painful length.

It was broken by the cheery voice of Fulkerson, sent before him to herald Fulkerson's cheery person.

"Well, I suppose you've got the glorious success of 'Every Other Week' down pretty cold in your talk by this time.

I should have been up sooner to join you, but I was nipping a man for the last page of the cover.