Wasn't that good?
She is very musical, you know, and plays the violin beautifully.

That'll be very useful at church meetings." "I can't imagine," said Miss Dawson, "why we should consider a minister's wife and her talents as the property of the congregation.

A doctor's wife isn't at the beck and call of her husband's patients, a lawyer's wife isn't briefed along with her husband.

It doesn't seem to me fair." "How odd," said Pamela; "only yesterday I was talking to Mrs.
Macdonald--Jean's minister's wife--and I said just what you say, that it seems hard that the time of a minister's wife should be at the mercy of everyone, and she said, 'My dear, it's our privilege, and if I had my life to live again I would ask nothing better than to be a hard-working minister's hard-working wife.' I stand hat in hand before that couple.
When you think what they have given all these years to this little town--what qualities of heart and head.

The tact of an ambassador (Mrs.
Macdonald has that), the eloquence of a Wesley, a largesse of sympathy and help and encouragement, not to speak of more material things to everyone in need, and all at the rate of L250 per annum.