There are plenty of men, no doubt, who are shocked beyond anything at the idea of hanging a woman; but those same men will think nothing of going straight home and making life for some other woman so absolutely miserable that she'd think hanging would be a lucky escape from something worse." "Harriet!" exclaimed Grandpa in a shocked voice.
"Well, I mean it!" declared Aunt Hattie emphatically.

"Look at poor Madge here, and that wretch of a husband of hers!" And just here is where the funny thing happened.

Mother bristled up--_Mother_--and even more than Aunt Hattie had.

She turned red and then white, and her eyes blazed.
"That will do, Hattie, please, in my presence," she said, very cold, like ice.

"Dr.Anderson is not a wretch at all.