The thing with her is, she has no docility.

She does not try to enter into Charlie's tastes." The woman with "no docility" entered at this moment,--a little snow-drop of a creature, with a pale, pure, Madonna face, and that sad air of hopeless firmness which is seen unhappily in the faces of so many women.
"I had to bring baby down," she said.

"I have no nurse to-day, and he has been threatened with croup." [Illustration: "I had to bring baby down."] "The dear little fellow!" said Mrs.Follingsbee, with officious graciousness.

"So glad you brought him down; come to his aunty ?" she inquired lovingly, as the little fellow shrank away, and regarded her with round, astonished eyes.

"Why will you not come to my next reception, Mrs.Ferrola ?" she added.