But to say it to this uncannily knowing little creature did not promise much good.
"Who told you I persuaded him ?" she asked.
"Nobody," answered the child.

"I knew." Joan seated herself, and drew the child towards her.
"It isn't as terrible as you think," she said.

"Many men who have risen and taken a high place in the world were married to kind, good women unable to share their greatness.

There was Shakespeare, you know, who married Anne Hathaway and had a clever daughter.

She was just a nice, homely body a few years older than himself.