"You don't get his meaning, Mrs.Whitney," said he.

"I, too, wish he were angry.

I'm afraid I've made him sad.

You know he's got old-fashioned views of many things, and he can't believe I've not really disgraced him and myself." "Do _you_ believe it ?" inquired Hiram, with a look at him as sudden and sharp as the ray of a search light.
"I _know_ it, father," replied Arthur earnestly.

"Am I not right, Mrs.Whitney ?" "Don't be such an old fogy, Hiram," said Mrs.Whitney.