"I like her all the better for it.

I--" "That makes it worse," she interrupted, and as she spoke I could not but recollect that a similar remark had been made to me before.

"I have not the slightest doubt that you would have been perfectly willing to settle down as the landlord of a little hotel.

But if you had not--even if you had gone on in the course which father has marked out for you, and you ought to hear him talk about you--you might have become famous, rich, nobody knows what, perhaps President of a college, but still everybody would have known that your wife was the young woman who used to keep the Holly Sprig Inn, and asked the people who came there if they objected to a back room, and if they wanted tea or coffee for their breakfast.

Of course Mrs.Chester thought too much of you to let you consider any such foolishness." I made no answer to this remark.