If he were less tender of her we should have to draw our zones tighter.

But he won't give us the chance to say, 'Teach the _amba_ with stick and the _esve_ with sugar.'" "I do say it.

She is never snubbed or silenced; and if she has had worse than what he calls 'advice' to-day, I believe it is the first time.

She has never 'had cause to wear the veil before the household' [to hide blushes or tears], or found that his 'lips can give sharper sting than their kiss can heal,' like the rest of us." "What for?
If he wished to find her in fault he would have to watch her dreams.

Do you expect him to be harder to her than to us?
He don't 'look for stains with a microscope.' None of us can say that he 'drinks tears for taste.' None of us ever 'smarted because the sun scorched _him_.' Would you have him 'tie her hands for being white' ?" [punish her for perfection].
"She is never at fault because he never believes us against her," returned Leenoo.
"How often would he have been right?
I saw nothing of to-day's quarrel, but I know beforehand where the truth lay.