“He’s away all day, and at night when I want to see him, he is continually going over to the Scotts’. It isn’t fair that I should have the hardest work, and never any amusement. Men are very selfish, even the best of them.”
“So are women. Don’t blame John till you see where you are wrong yourself.”
“But it can’t be right for him to neglect me.”
“Don’t you neglect him?”
“Why, Mother, I thought you’d take my part!”
“So I do, as far as sympathizing goes, but I think the fault is yours, Meg.”
“I don’t see how.”
“Let me show you. Did John ever neglect you, as you call it, while you made it a point to give him your society of an evening, his only leisure time?”
“No, but I can’t do it now, with two babies to tend.”
“I think you could, dear, and I think you ought. May I speak quite freely, and will you remember that it’s Mother who blames as well as Mother who sympathizes?”