[The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland]@TWC D-Link bookThe Secret of a Happy Home (1896) CHAPTER XVII 1/11
AND OTHER RELATIONS-IN-LAW The other day I chanced to be a listener to the conversation of two young married women.
They were making their plans for the coming week. One of them remarked, drearily: "Henry's sister and her husband are to spend next Sunday with me." "Are they!" exclaimed the other.
"And my husband's father and mother are to honor me by a visit on the same day." For a moment there was silence, then No.
1 said in an awed voice: "My dear, you and I need the prayers of the congregation.
We are both objects of pity.
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