Mrs.Bassett was indulging in the luxury of a trained nurse this summer, but even with this reinforcement she found it impossible to manage Marian.

It need hardly be said that Mrs.Owen's philanthropic enterprises occasioned her the greatest alarm.

It was enough that "that girl" should be spending the summer at Waupegan, without bringing with her all her fellow boarders from Elizabeth House.
Mrs.Bassett had now a tangible grievance against her husband.
Blackford's course at the military school he had chosen for himself had been so unsatisfactory that his father had been advised that he would not be received for another year.

It was now Mrs.Bassett's turn to cavil at her husband for the sad mess he had made of the boy's education.

She would never have sent Blackford to a military school if it had been her affair; she arraigned her husband for having encouraged the boy in his dreams of West Point.
Blackford's father continuing indifferent, Mrs.Bassett rose from bed one hot August day filled with determination.