Are they fragrant ?" Lee crossed the room and bent his face above them.
The man's wife rubbed her hands together under her apron with much pleasure.

Thus politely for him to notice and praise her flowers! In her heart, as in the heart of her husband, there formerly had been resentment at this white canal-builder for cutting their field with a big ditch, an occurrence which the county judge somehow had stupidly permitted.

But now she did not know what to feel.

Yesterday he had sent them a doctor for nothing, and this evening was smelling her flowers admiringly.

He could not be exactly a monster.