These were to have someone to manage the house, and to be set free from the necessity of earning his bread, so that he might indulge in pursuits more pleasurable than money-making.

Mrs.Kendal was a placid, phlegmatic lady, who liked rather than loved the Professor, and who desired him more as a companion than as a husband.

With Braddock she did not arrange a romantic marriage so much as enter into a congenial partnership.

She wanted a man in the house, and he desired freedom from pecuniary embarrassment.

On these lines the prosaic bargain was struck, and Mrs.Kendal became the Professor's wife with entirely successful results.