And another day I heard her say that one trouble with marriage was that the husband and wife didn't know how to play together and to rest together.

And lots of times I've heard her say little things to Aunt Hattie that showed how unhappy _her_ marriage had been.
But last night a funny thing happened.

We were all in the library reading after dinner, and Grandpa looked up from his paper and said something about a woman that was sentenced to be hanged and how a whole lot of men were writing letters protesting against having a woman hanged; but there were only one or two letters from women.

And Grandpa said that only went to prove how much more lacking in a sense of fitness of things women were than men.

And he was just going to say more when Aunt Hattie bristled up and tossed her chin, and said, real indignantly: "A sense of fitness of things, indeed! Oh, yes, that's all very well to say.