In little things the gallant officer, for the sake of discipline and peace, submitted to due authority; and being so much from home, he left all household matters to a firm control.

In return for this, he was always thought of first, and the best of everything was kept for him, and Mrs.Carroway quoted him to others as a wonder, though she may not have done so to himself.

And so, upon the whole, they got on very well together.
Now on this day, when the lieutenant had exhausted a grumble of unusual intensity, and the fair Geraldine (his eldest child) had obeyed him to the letter, by keeping her mouth full while she warmed a plate for him, it was not long before his usual luck befell the bold Carroway.

Rap, rap, came a knock at the side door of his cottage--a knock only too familiar; and he heard the gruff voice of Cadman--"Can I see his honor immediately ?" "No, you can not," replied Mrs.Carroway.

"One would think you were all in a league to starve him.