"Now go on about Mrs.Carr." The talk went on, with interruptions for supper and Sally's two small children, far into the evening.

And Mrs.Crothers did her share--filling in for Ethel the picture of Joe's old life, his work and dreams, and his first marriage.

She told of several meetings with Amy.
And all the time she kept watching, probing into this young second wife, skilfully raising Ethel's hopes, her vivid freshness and her youth, her hunger for a life she saw only in dazzling glimpses.
"Do you want my advice about meeting Joe! Then here it is," she said at the end.

"I needn't say don't go on your knees--" "You needn't!" "I thought so--you're not that kind.

And I wouldn't explain too much about Dwight, and those little things you did with him.