"I am, of course, expected to pay some attention to my mother's guests, and you will have to put up with it." "You are always right and I am always wrong," she said, half choking with indignation; "but if you are always to do as _you_ please, I shall do as _I_ please." "In regard to what ?" he asked coldly.
"Everything!" she answered in a defiant tone.
Edward strode angrily into the next room; but five minutes sufficed to subdue his passion, and in tender tones he called softly to his wife, "Zoe, love, will you please come here for a moment ?" She started with surprise at the kindness of his tones, her heart leaped for joy, and she ran to him, smiling through her tears.
He had seated himself in a large easy-chair.

"Come, darling," he said, drawing her to a seat upon his knee.

Then with his arm about her waist, "Zoe, love, we are husband and wife, whom nothing but death can ever separate.

Let us be kind to one another, kind and forbearing, so that when one is taken the other will have no cause for self-reproach." "O Ned, don't talk of that," she sobbed with her arms about his neck, her cheek laid to his.

"I'm sure it would kill me to lose you.