I wanted to hear no more; it was all as clear as day to me.

When I related to Mrs.Sunderland what John had said, she was, at first, quite indignant.

But the reasonableness of the thing soon became so apparent that she could not but acknowledge that she had acted very unwisely.
"This is another specimen of your saving at the spigot," I said, playfully.
"There, Mr.Sunderland! not a word more, if you please, of that," she returned, her cheek more flushed than usual.

"It is my duty, as your wife, to dispense with prudence in your household; and if, in seeking to do so, I have run a little into extremes, I think it ill becomes you to ridicule or censure me.

Dear knows! I have not sought my own ease or comfort in the matter." "My dear, good wife," I quickly said, in a soothing voice, "I have neither meant to ridicule nor censure you--nothing was farther from my thoughts." "You shall certainly have no cause to complain of me on this score again," she said, still a little warmly.