But it was his wife who again met him at the door, though it seemed another woman than the one he had left weeping in the morning.
"I told the children," she said, in smiling explanation of his absence from lunch, "that perhaps you were detained by business.

I didn't know but you had gone back to the office." "Did you think I would go back there, Isabel ?" asked March, with a haggard look.

"Well, if you say so, I will go back, and do what Dryfoos ordered me to do.

I'm sufficiently cowed between him and you, I can assure you." "Nonsense," she said.

"I approve of everything you did.