“You will speak to your mother at once?”
“I will.”
“And do it beautifully?”
“As well as I know how.”
“Ah, you have had such practice! How good it would be if we could only dare to quarrel in this family! You and I—of course!”
“We quarrel, of course!” laughed Paul.
“I love to quarrel with you!”
“You do it beautifully. You have had such practice!”
“I am so happy! It is clear to me now that we shall live down this misery. Christine will love to see me again; I know she will. A wife is a very different thing from a girl—a haughty girl!”
“I should think the wife of Banks Bowen might be.”