She would even become, I must affirm, more nearly Peavey than was strictly her right; for it was plain that our treaty, must involve certain stipulations of restraint on her part as well as on my own.

The burden was not all to be mine.

But these moments I learned to withstand, remembering that she was a woman.

That was a circumstance not hard to remember when she was by.

It is probable that my heart could not have forgotten it, even had my trained head learned blandly to ignore it.
Further to enliven those days, I permitted Jim to give her lessons in believing everything.