He was strongly impressed by the novelty and good sense of the ideas that her husband advocated, and was candid enough openly to acknowledge it.

But he, too, protested against any attempt on the part of a woman to carry out any part of the proposed reform, even on the smallest scale.

Exasperated by these new remonstrances, my aunt's patience gave way.

Refusing to submit herself to the physician's advice, she argued the question boldly from her own point of view.

The discussion was at its height, when the door of the room was suddenly opened from without.