I've had my wife here.

We're rather fond of one another, you know ...

My God! what brave things women are! If she had broken down all over me I could have risen to the occasion.

But she didn't, and I felt a cowardly worm." "I had a brave wife, too," said I, and for a few moments we talked shyly about the women who had played sacred parts in our lives.

Whether he was comforted by what I said I don't know.