10/15 John is a noble, manly fellow. He loves you, and he will always be master of his own house." "No, he won't,--no married man ever is," said Miss Grace, wiping her eyes, and sitting up very straight. "No man, that is a gentleman, is ever master in his own house. He has only such rights there as his wife chooses to give him; and this woman won't like me, I'm sure." "Perhaps she will," said Letitia, in a faltering voice. These soft, slippery, pretty little fibbing women have always been my abomination." "Oh, my _dear_ Grace!" said Miss Ferguson, "do let us make the best of it." "I _did_ think," said Miss Grace, wiping her eyes, "that John had some sense. |