Problem:—"Which is harder; for a woman to live under the same roof with a man whom she detests, or for a man to live under the same roof with a woman who detests him?"
"Every day she invents some new way of being disagreeable."
"Love should have but one punishment for the wrongdoer,—that is, forgiveness."
"Injuries are writ in iron,—kindnesses scrawled in sand."
Again November 13th.
"Elsie having told me:—
1. That I can ask nothing of her.
2. That her affairs are no concern of mine.
3. That hereafter she will give no orders for me:
We lead separate lives,—but into my life I open windows. Against her own she closes doors."