For now, in their prosperity, they had advanced somewhat beyond the simple plenty of the frying-pan.

It was a difficult letter to write.

Should it be ecstatic and loving, or cold and severe,--or light, and therefore false?
'My own one, here I am.

I have struck gold.

Come to me and share it.' That would have been ecstatic and loving.' 'Tis a hard life this, and not fit for a woman's weakness.