'Oh, that's it, is it?' I cried incautiously. 'That was why I ought to have verified my quotations. The spelling defeated me. Wait a moment, and it will come back. Johnson said: "He was a vicious man,"' I began.
'"But very kind to me,"' Mrs. Godfrey prompted. Then, both together, '"If you call a dog Hervey, I shall love him."'
'So you were mixed up in it. At any rate, you had your suspicions from the first? Tell me,' she said.
'Ella,' I said, 'I don't know anything rational or reasonable about any of it. It was all--all woman-work, and it scared me horribly.'
'Why?' she asked.
That was six years ago. I have written this tale to let her know--wherever she may be.
THE COMFORTERS
Until thy feet have trod the Road