"I know.

I know all you can tell me.
I know because I've been through--" "You don't mean to say he threatened _you_ with the flat-iron ?" "If threatening was only all!" said Alice, like a martyr.
"Then he's not changed, in all these years!" wept the mother of curates.
"If he has, it's for the worse," said Alice.

"How was I to tell ?" she faced the curates.

"How could I know?
And yet nobody, nobody, could be nicer than he is at times!" "That's true, that's true," responded the authentic Mrs.Henry Leek.

"He was always so changeable.