"What did I do?
Why had you any more right to laugh and talk with another woman than I with another man ?" "Laughing and talking may be well enough; but it was more than that; you were actually flirting." "You call it that just because you are jealous.

And if I was, it was your fault--setting me the example by flirting with Miss Deane." "I did nothing of the kind," he returned haughtily.

"I sat beside her against my will, simply because she requested me to go over those sketches and engravings with her.

I couldn't in common politeness refuse." "Well, I didn't know that; and you needn't scold me for following your example." "I tell you I did not set you the example; and I advise you to beware how you behave so again.

Also how you interfere in the discipline grandpa and mamma see proper to use toward Max and his sisters, as you did to-night." "So you have been acting the spy upon your wife!" she interrupted in scornful indignation.
"No; I overheard you quite accidentally.