I tell you I've learned to depend on myself, recently--at Mrs.Ascott's suggestion.

And I'm doing it now by wiring Virginia Suydam to come and fill in the third table.
"Now I want you to come back at once.

If you don't I'm going to have a serious talk with you, Louis.

I've taken Mrs.Ascott into my confidence more or less and she agrees with me that I ought to lay down a strong, rigid policy and that it is your duty to execute it.

In fact she also took me into her confidence and gave me, at my request, a very clear idea of how she would run this place; and to my surprise and gratification I find that her ideas of discipline, taste, and economy are exactly mine, although I thought of them first and perhaps have influenced her in this matter as I have in others.