He knew that it must be one of the womanish, hysterical, sentimental type of things which he despised.

But Margaret had been so modest that she had held back from the turning on the search-light of her own greater glory.

She had made the effort which had resulted so disastrously to obtain a lesser one, and he had condemned her.

He knew that women always used circuitous ways toward their results, just as men used sledge-hammer ones.

Why should a man criticise a woman's method any more than a woman criticise a man's?
Wilbur, blushing like a girl with pride and delight, listened to his wife and fairly lashed himself.