What I wanted to say was that for an engaged man he had been pretty liberal with his visits, but she had such a queer look in her eyes I couldn't express myself, somehow." "It was just as well left unsaid," her husband told her, thoughtfully.
"I'm not so sure," Mrs Murchison retorted.

"You're a great man, John, for letting everything alone.

When he's been coming here regularly for more than a year, putting ideas into the girl's head--" "He seems to have told her how things were." "That's all very well--if he had kept himself to himself at the same time." "Well, Mother, you know you never thought much of the prospect." "No, I didn't," Mrs Murchison said.

"It wouldn't be me that would be married to him, and I've always said so.

But I'd got more or less used to it," she confessed.