12/18 People resent attacks on women, especially, on one whose reputation has never known a shadow, as girl, wife, or mother." "Yes," came in slow assent from the lips which had just smiled, and he glanced at Mrs.Packard whose own lips seemed suddenly to become dry, for I saw her try to moisten them as her right hand groped about for something on the tabletop and finally settled on a small paper-weight which she set down amongst her matches. Was it then or afterward that I began to have my first real doubt whether some shadow had not fallen across her apparently unsullied life? "People do resent such insinuations against a woman, though I remember one case where the opposite effect was produced. It was when Collins ran for supervisor in Cleveland. |