He had never heard her express herself at such length before.

"Do you think I fail as a husband ?" he asked humbly.

"God knows I'd like to give my wife about two-thirds of my time, but at least I have perfect confidence in her.

I should soon cease to care for a wife I was obliged to watch." "Young things are young things." Madame Delano looked at Helene, who had turned very white and had lowered her own lids to hide the consternation in her eyes.

But as her mother ceased speaking she raised them in swift appeal to Ruyler.
"Maman says I coquette too much," she said plaintively, and Price wondered if a slight movement under the hem of Madame Delano's long skirts meant that the toe of a little gray shoe were boring into one of the massive plinths of his mother-in-law.