They are more temporizing." "How do you mean ?" Agatha unmasked again.
"They can bear to keep things better than we can, and they trust to time to bring them right, or to come right of themselves." "I don't think Mr.March would trust things to come right of themselves!" said Agatha in indignant accusal of Mrs.March's sincerity.
"Ah, that's just what he would do, my dear, and has done, all along; and I don't believe we could have lived through without it: we should have quarrelled ourselves into the grave!" "Mrs.March!" "Yes, indeed.

I don't mean that he would ever deceive me.

But he would let things go on, and hope that somehow they would come right without any fuss." "Do you mean that he would let anybody deceive themselves ?" "I'm afraid he would--if he thought it would come right.

It used to be a terrible trial to me; and it is yet, at times when I don't remember that he means nothing but good and kindness by it.

Only the other day in Ansbach--how long ago it seems!--he let a poor old woman give him her son's address in Jersey City, and allowed her to believe he would look him up when we got back and tell him we had seen her.