In that crisis Adelaide had been anything but weak.

Every one had been so grateful to her,--he and Joe and the Severances,--and then immediately afterward the crash came.
Women! Mr.Lanley shook his head, still moving briskly northward with that quick jaunty walk of his.

And this second marriage--what about that?
They seemed happy.

Farron was a fine fellow, but not, it seemed to him, so attractive to a woman as Severance.

Could he hold a woman like Adelaide?
He wasn't a man to stand any nonsense, though, and Mr.Lanley nodded; then, as it were, withdrew the nod on remembering that poor Joe had not wanted to stand any nonsense either.