You'd have been awfully disappointed if I had been calm and collected." "She refused him," she began again, "although she respects him, because she feels that she ought to devote herself to her son.

Of course she's very young, still; she was married when she was only nineteen to a man twice her age, and she's not thirty-five yet.

I don't think she ever cared much for her husband; and she wants you to find out something about him." "I never heard of him.

I--" Mrs.March made a "tchck!" that would have recalled the most consequent of men from the most logical and coherent interpretation to the true intent of her words.

He perceived his mistake, and said, resolutely: "Well, I won't do it.