"I never heard, Valeria, of a woman doing what you propose to do.

Lord help us! the new generation is beyond my fathoming.

I wish your uncle Starkweather was here: I wonder what he would say?
Oh, dear me, what a letter from a wife to a husband! Do you really mean to send it to him ?" I added immeasurably to my old friend's surprise by not even employing the post-office.

I wished to see the "instructions" which my husband had left behind him.

So I took the letter to his lawyers myself.
The firm consisted of two partners.