You only misunderstand each other, and with a little good will on both sides you can easily get out of your tangle.' But he would n't listen to me; he stopped me short.

I saw I should excite him if I insisted; so I dropped the subject.

But it is not for long; he shall listen to me." Later she wrote that Blanche had in fact "backed out," and would not come to stay with them, having given as an excuse that she was perpetually trying on dresses, and that at Mrs.Vivian's she should be at an inconvenient distance from the temple of these sacred rites, and the high priest who conducted the worship.

"But we see her every day," said Angela, "and mamma is constantly with her.

She likes mamma better than me.