I ain't forgot how he talked because we bought this parlor furniture and put big lights in the windows, an' had that iron fence.
Then my poor husband had gone into business with your husband, an' they seemed to be making money.

Why shouldn't he have bought a few things we'd always done without, I'd like to know?
You remember what a time the old man made when we bought these things, Esther, I suppose ?" "I can't say as I do," returned Mrs.Field.
"Why, seems to me it's funny you don't.

You sure ?" Mrs.Field nodded.
"Well, it's queer you don't.

He made an awful time over it; but the worst of it was over that image out in the yard.

I b'lieve he always thought my poor husband and yours failed up because we bought that image.