“I should think he did! That’s the worst of it.”
“The worst of it? Why?”
“Oh, she isn’t a woman to keep a man straight. She’d have to begin with herself, way back, too.” Then she added, “Who was the woman Macbeth,—Lady Macbeth?”
“One of Shakspere’s characters,” said Carington.
“I should like well to read about her.”
“She ‘p’inted’ her man wrong, I can tell you,” laughed Rose. “I can lend you the book.”
“Now, can you? Don’t forget. There’s the writing. I am rather proud of it.” They both considered it gravely.
“You might put in the dates.”
“Joe says ‘no.’ I guess he thinks it will make too much work.”
“How strange!” said Rose. “And the text is, ‘Of such are the kingdom of heaven.’”