But now?
Well, now she had become quite tolerant, quite kindly--at any rate as far as Joe Chandler was concerned.
She wondered why.
Still, 'twouldn't do Joe a bit of harm not to see the girl for a couple of days.

In fact 'twould be a very good thing, for then he'd think of Daisy--think of her to the exclusion of all else.

Absence does make the heart grow fonder--at first, at any rate.

Mrs.
Bunting was well aware of that.

During the long course of hers and Bunting's mild courting, they'd been separated for about three months, and it was that three months which had made up her mind for her.