Oh, if she had only understood the horrible depth of a lie! "Suppose Von Rosen is making up to little Annie ?" said Wilbur presently.
"I don't know." "Well, she is a nice little thing, sweet tempered, and pretty, although of course her mental calibre is limited.

She may make a good wife, though.

A man doesn't expect his wife always to set the river on fire as you have done, sweetheart." Then Wilbur fished from his pockets a lot of samples.

"Thought I must order a new suit, to live up to my wife," he said.

"See which you prefer, Margaret." "I should think your own political outlook would make the new suit necessary," said Margaret tartly.
"Not a bit of it.