Our social barometers always stand at 'cloudy' and 'overcast.'" "And whose fault is that ?" she said, easily.
"Not mine," he answered, pettishly.

"I know I do all I can--I say all I can--but she----" This was rather awkwardly put by Patton, but Carrie redeemed it with a grace which was inspiring.
"But she is your wife," she said, fixing her whole attention upon the stilled actor, and softening the quality of her voice until it was again low and musical.

"Ray, my friend, courtship is the text from which the whole sermon of married life takes its theme.

Do not let yours be discontented and unhappy." She put her two little hands together and pressed them appealingly.
Hurstwood gazed with slightly parted lips.

Drouet was fidgeting with satisfaction.
"To be my wife, yes," went on the actor in a manner which was weak by comparison, but which could not now spoil the tender atmosphere which Carrie had created and maintained.