They both write novels--very good novels, too; and got jealous of one another; and threw press-notices at one another's head all breakfast-time; until they separated.

Don't know of any recipe myself for being happy ever after marriage, except not expecting it." "Or keeping out of it altogether," added Joan.
"Ever spent a day at the Home for Destitute Gentlewomen at East Sheen ?" demanded Madge.
"Not yet," admitted Joan.

"May have to, later on." "It ought to be included in every woman's education," Madge continued.
"It is reserved for spinsters of over forty-five.

Susan Fleming wrote an article upon it for the _Teacher's Friend_; and spent an afternoon and evening there.

A month later she married a grocer with five children.
The only sound suggestion for avoiding trouble that I ever came across was in a burlesque of the _Blue Bird_.