Mrs.Charnock was going too far, but she controlled her resentment.
"After all, were you not taking something for granted ?" "Well," said Sadie thoughtfully, "if I'd tried hard, I might have got Steve then, but I don't know if I'd have been any happier with him.

He'd have gone his own way and taken me along; a good way, perhaps, but it wouldn't have been mine.

Bob's different; sometimes he has to be hustled and sometimes led, but you get fond of a man you must take care of.

Then everybody likes Bob, and he kind of grows on you.

I don't know how it is, but you can't get mad with him." Helen thought there was something humiliating to Bob in his wife's patience, but she was moved.