Since poor Mr.Baker left me, we have been together all the time.

You know my poor husband left directions that all his papers should be burned, and though I would not say so unless you were such a friend of Mr.Carrington's, I reckon it's just as well for some people that he did.

I never could tell you what quantities of papers Mr.Carrington and I have put in the fire; and we read them all too." Madeleine asked whether this was not dull work.
"Oh, dear, no! You see I know all about it, and told Mr.Carrington the story of every paper as we went on.

It was quite amusing, I assure you." Mrs.Lee then boldly said she had got from Mr.Carrington an idea that Mrs.
Baker was a very skilful diplomatist.
"Diplomatist!" echoed the widow with her genial laugh; "Well! it was as much that as anything, but there's not many diplomatists' wives in this city ever did as much work as I used to do.

Why, I knew half the members of Congress intimately, and all of them by sight.