He did not care so much whether what she willed to do were, "Wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best," as feel that what she wished to do must be done at any rate.
[Illustration: "She perched herself on his knee."] "Why, darling!" he said in his rapture; "why didn't you tell me all this before?
Here you have been growing sad and blue, and losing your vivacity and spirits, and never told me why!" "I thought it was my duty, John, to try to bear it," said Lillie, with the sweet look of a virgin saint.

"I thought perhaps I should get used to things in time; and I think it is a wife's duty to accommodate herself to her husband's circumstances." "No, it's a husband's duty to accommodate himself to his wife's wishes," said John.

"What's that fellow's address?
I'll write to him about doing our house, forthwith." "But, John, do pray tell Gracie that it's _your_ wish.

I don't want her to think that it's I that am doing this.

Now, pray do think whether you really want it yourself.