"'What do you object to? The ladies?'
"'Not so much the ladies, Lemon,' I answered, 'as the private room.'
"'O,' said he, 'the private room?'
"'Yes,' said I; 'I don't think it proper.'
"'Don't you?' said he, getting nasty. 'Well, I do, and there's a end of it. You mind your business, Fanny, and I'll mind mine.'
"I saw that he meant it and didn't intend to give way, and I consequenchually held my tongue. Even when I was told that Lemon often went out to private houses to dress ladies' hair I thought it best to say nothing. I had my feelings, but I kep 'em to myself. I'm for peace and harmony, sir, and I wish everybody was like me.
"One night Lemon give me a most agreeable surprise. He came home and said:
"'Fanny, what would you like best in the world?'
"There was a question to put to a woman! I thought of everything, without giving anything a name. The truth is I was knocked over, so to speak.
"Lemon spoke up agin. 'What would you say, Fanny, if I told you I was going to sell the business and retire?'