The wiser folly

By Leslie Moore
The Peacock Feather The Jester The Wiser Folly
LESLIE MOORE
AUTHOR OF “THE PEACOCK FEATHER,” ETC.
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1916
Copyright, 1916
BY LESLIE MOORE
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
The Wiser Folly
When the Delancey affair had been brought to a conclusion, it was not uninteresting to note the various opinions set forth regarding its happy termination.
Biddy, at once autocrat and indulger of at least three generations of juvenile Delanceys, maintained, and stoutly, it was entirely due to her own prayers to her patron saint. She took, so to speak, a monopoly of the business as far as any human agency was concerned. But, as one cannot, with any degree of modesty, parade one’s private devotions to the world at large, it was hardly probable that this view of the matter would be universal.
The village in general, with the exception of Mrs. Trimwell, laid the whole credit at the feet of Lady Mary Delancey. Doubtless this was on account of the wave of relief which had surged over it, and which exalted her ladyship, for the time being at least, to a pinnacle of almost giddy height.