Well, I saw what they wanted.

They all saw it--nobody is a fool in all directions, and the Dryfooses are in their right senses a good deal of the time.

Well, to cut a long story short, I got Mrs.Mandel to take 'em in hand--the old lady as well as the girls.

She was a born lady, and always lived like one till she saw Mandel; and that something academic that killed her for a writer was just the very thing for them.

She knows the world well enough to know just how much polish they can take on, and she don't try to put on a bit more.