It was true.

For all their unanimity of thought and feeling, for all the latitude she had in domestic and village affairs, Gerald had a habit of filling his pipe with her decisions.

Quite honestly, she had no objection to their becoming smoke through HIS lips, though she might wriggle just a little.

To her credit, she did entirely carry out in her life her professed belief that husbands should be the forefronts of their wives.

For all that, there burst from her lips the words: "That Freeland woman! When I think of the mischief she's always done here, by her example and her irreligion--I can't forgive her.