“You just assured me you should have done as he did!” I teased, laughing. “No. Of course both of them were justified in everything but in their making a legal matter a family quarrel. If we had had it to do, it would have been done amicably, I think.”
“What makes you so sure?” she asked.
“Because I am sweet-tempered, and you—”
She wouldn’t accept a compliment from an enemy, so interrupted me with, “My father has one of the finest natures I have ever known.”
“‘Physician, know thyself,’” I quoted, getting in the compliment in spite of her.
“That’s more than you do,” she replied merrily.
This could be taken in two ways, but I preferred to make it applicable to her rather than to myself. I said, “Our acquaintance has been short.”
“But we know all about the stock,” she corrected.
“I’m proud of the family,” I acknowledged; “but don’t let’s be Ibsenish.”
“I knew you didn’t like him,” said Kate, confidentially. “I don’t either.”