What is it all about ?" "She talks a good deal about her husband.

It is a comfort to her to find someone to listen.

She thinks he is a god.

But we principally talk about--me." "Don't discourage her," laughed Osborn.

"Perhaps she will get so fond of you that she will not be willing to part with us, as she will be obliged to take both to keep one." "I wish she would, I wish she would!" sighed Hester, tossing up her hands in a languid, yet fretted gesture.
The contrast between herself and this woman was very often too great to be equably borne.