Warham, mere man, was amused by his wife's scheming.
"Don't put yourself out, Fanny," said he.

"If the boy wants Ruth and she wants him, why, well and good.

But you'll only make a mess interfering.

Let the young people alone." "I'm surprised, George Warham," cried Fanny, "that you can show so little sense and heart." "To hear you talk, I'd think marriage was a business, like groceries." Mrs.Warham thought it was, in a sense.

But she would never have dared say so aloud, even to her husband--or, rather, especially to her husband.