However, she was glad of the appointment, because the news of it would be useful in calming and reconciling her grandmother.

Just as her spirits began to rise it flashed into her mind: "Why, that's how it happens I'm married! If he hadn't been successful in getting the office he wouldn't have come....

He maneuvered the President into a position where he had to give him what he wanted.

Then he came here and maneuvered me into a position where _I_ had to give him what he wanted.

Always his 'game!' No sincerity or directness anywhere in him, and very little real courage." Here she stopped short in the full swing of pharisaism, smiled at herself in dismal self-mockery.