If I were in your place, I would take the next train for the city; and before I closed my eyes this night, I would know whether or not such a prize as that were in my reach.

I say prize because I never heard of such a chance being offered to a doctor's wife in a country town.

Now what are you going to do about it, Kitty?
If your regard for your husband's physical condition is not sufficient to make you look on this matter as I do, think of his soul.

If you don't believe that true religion and good cooking go hand in hand, wait a year and then see what sort of a husband you will have." Mrs.Tolbridge felt that she ought to resent this speech, that she ought to be, at least, a little angry; but when she was a small girl, Miss Panney was an old woman who sometimes used to scold her.

She had not minded the scoldings very much then, and she could not bring herself to mind this scolding very much now.