I met her in the hall right after they got through talkin', an' she was white as a sheet, an' her eyes was like two blazin' stars.

So I know how she must have looked while she was in the library.

An' I must say she give it to him good an' plain, straight from the shoulder.

She told him _she_ was shocked an' scandalized that he could talk to his wife like that; an' didn't he have any more regard for _her_ honor and decency than to accuse her of runnin' after any man living--much less a dozen of them! An' then she told him a lot of what his mother had said to her, an' she said she had been merely tryin' to carry out those instructions.

She was tryin' to make her husband and her husband's wife an' her husband's home popular with the college folks, so she could help him to be president, if he wanted to be.