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Grenly wiped her tears on the corner of her shawl, and took occasion to look at her husband as she did so. "You may come here, madam!" Madam went, knowing the victory was won; her tears were dry in a moment. "Nellie Grenly, look me right in the eyes!" "Yes! there!" And she concentrated her glorious laughing eyes upon him, trying very hard not to make a display of rebellious dimples.
There was a shade less of ferocity in the tone. "For my sister's!" "Why didn't you tell me why you wanted to go, madam?" "It was a secret between Alice and me; and I rather thought you liked me, and I might impose on you, as I used to do on the girls at school that liked me. "What do you mean, Ellen Grenly?" "I thought I could do just as I wished, and you'd make up just as the girls used to do."
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