MRS. SHEFF
I was a Thomson—Thomson without the P, you know, from Rhode Island. All families are hot tempered. All husbands' families, anyway.
MRS. JOHNS
Gordon's father used to say that Adam and Eve didn't know when they were well off. He said that was why they called it the Garden of Eden.
MRS. SHEFF
Why?
MRS. JOHNS
Because there was no mother-in-law there.
MRS. SHEFF
Poor children, they have such a lot to learn! I really feel ashamed, Mrs. Johns, because Laura is an undisciplined little thing, and I'm afraid I've always petted her too much. She had such a lot of attention before she met Gordon, and was made so much of, it gave her wrong ideas.