I can't bear them.' 'Oh, very well: if you can't cook a bloater, you're not the wife for me.' And there they broke off, for good and all." "Which means for a month or two, I suppose." "Impossible to say.

But I have advised her as strongly as I could not to marry until she knows her own mind better.

It is too bad of her to have gone so far.

The poor man had taken rooms, and all but furnished them.

Patty's a silly girl, I'm afraid." "Wants a strong man to take her in hand--like a good many other girls." Eve paid no attention to the smile.
"Paris spoilt her for such a man as Mr.Dally.She got all sorts of new ideas, and can't settle down to the things that satisfied her before.
It isn't nice to think that perhaps we did her a great deal of harm." "Nonsense! Nobody was ever harmed by healthy enjoyment." "Was it healthy--for _her_?
That's the question." Hilliard mused, and felt disinclined to discuss the matter.
"That isn't the only news I have for you," said Eve presently.