And his wife knows all about it, and is only too glad." "Does she know about Richmond Park--and the other places ?" asked Flossie.
"She wouldn't mind if she did," explained Joan.

"And you know what she's like! How can one think what one's saying with that silly, goggle-eyed face in front of one always." Flossie, since she had become engaged, had acquired quite a matronly train of thought.

She spoke kindly, with a little grave shake of her head.

"My dear," she said, "the wife is always in the way.

You'd feel just the same whatever her face was like." Joan grew angry.