It would take more grit than Dean possesses to dare to find fault with John Ward's wife to her husband." "What folly!" cried the rector, his face flushed with annoyance.

"What possessed Helen to say such a thing! She ought to have had more sense.
Mark my words, that speech of hers will make trouble for Ward.

I don't understand how Helen could be so foolish; she was brought up just as Lois was, yet, thank Heaven, her head isn't full of whims about reforming a community.

What in the world made her express such an opinion if she had it, and what made her have it ?" Dr.Howe had risen, and walked impatiently up and down the room, and now stood in front of Gifford, with a forefinger raised to emphasize his words.

"There is something so absurd, so unpleasant, in a young woman's meddling with things which don't belong to her, in seeing a little mind struggle with ideas.