I couldn't compel a reluctant wife to return to an unwilling husband, especially when she thinks the husband is all right.") "You see, she approves of Ward," he groaned.
Mrs.Dale sat down, but the rector walked nervously about, jingling some keys in his pocket.
"It is very distressing," he said.
"Distressing ?" cried Mrs.Dale.

"It is worse than distressing.

It is disgraceful, that's what it is,--disgraceful! What will Deborah Woodhouse say, and the Draytons?
I tell you, Archibald, it must be put a stop to, at once!" "That is very easy to say," began Dr.Howe.
"It is very easy to do, if there's a grain of sense in your family.

Just send your niece"-- "She's your niece, too, Adele," he interrupted.
But Mrs.Dale did not pause--"back to her husband.

You ought to have taken her yesterday morning.