"You must ask your husband that."
"He says that you are the cleverest man they have had for years. Does that make you proud?"
"Thank you!"
"Will you let the big dog Strauss eat us?" she laughed on.
"I'll tell you a few years later, madam."
"Yes," she mused, "you are right. A man, a strong man—and that's the only kind that is a man—must be at work. The sweetest love can't keep him long."
Here Sarah's voice reached us:—
"You mustn't distract him to-day of all days, Jane!"
"He can't be distracted long, my child—by anybody!"