"I guess March would have backed down if it hadn't been for his wife.

She was as hot as pepper about it, and you could see that she would have sacrificed all her husband's relations sooner than let him back down an inch from the stand he had taken.

It's pretty easy for a man to stick to a principle if he has a woman to stand by him.

But when you come to play it alone--" "Mr.Fulkerson," said the girl, solemnly, "Ah will stand bah you in this, if all the woald tones against you." The tears came into her eyes, and she put out her hand to him.
"You will ?" he shouted, in a rapture.

"In every way--and always--as long as you live?
Do you mean it ?" He had caught her hand to his breast and was grappling it tight there and drawing her to him.
The changing emotions chased one another through her heart and over her face: dismay, shame, pride, tenderness.