It has so much farther to fall.

Whose fault is it, hers or his ?" Mrs.Hosack bent forward and endeavored to lower her voice.

She was a kind-hearted woman who delighted to see every one happy and normal.
"I'm very worried about those two, my dear," she answered.

"There are all sorts of stories afloat,--one to the effect that Martin has gone off with a chorus girl, another that Joan only married him to get away from her grandparents and a third that they quarreled violently on the way home from church and have not been on speaking terms since.

I daresay there are many others, but whatever did happen, and something evidently did, Joan is happy enough, and every man in the house is sentimental about her.