She divined their insincerity and their motive, and had no mind to take any part in forwarding the latter.
And Ruth assured her she had acted wisely.

"If trouble should ever come of this friendship," she said, "Dora would very likely complain that you had always thrown Mostyn in her way, brought him to her house in New York, and brought her to him at Rawdon, in England.

Marriage is such a risk, Ethel, but to marry without the courage to adapt oneself.

AH!" "You think that condition unspeakably hard ?" "There are no words for it." "Dora was not reticent, I assure you." "I am sorry.

A wife's complaints are self-inflicted wounds; scattered seeds, from which only misery can spring.