There was your father, for instance, he knew a woman's heart as well as he knew a loom or a sample of cotton, and there's your brother Harry who is just as willing and helpful as his wife Lucy, and I shall not be far wrong, if I say the best improvement I have seen on the original Adam is a man called John Hatton.

He is nearly good enough for any woman." Again John laughed as he answered, "Well, dear mother, this is as far as we need to go.

Tell me in plain Yorkshire what you mean by it." "I mean, John, that in your heart you are hardly judging Jane fairly.

I notice in you, as well as in the general run of husbands, that if they hev to suffer at all, they tell themselves that it is their wife's fault, and they manage to believe it.

It's queer but then it's a man's way." "You think I should be kinder to Jane ?" "Thou art kind enough in a way.