"
Yet, despite his apparent jubilation of spirit, I detect a longing
expression in Dorothy's eyes and I notice that she steals a second glance
over her tailor-made shoulder at little Winona, our youngest, who is an
uncommonly pretty child, if I do say it.
"There go a light-hearted, honest couple with the courage of their
convictions," I remark to Josephine, tentatively. "Before the sermon has
begun they will be on the river and they will come home delightfully
tired just in time for dinner."
"Light-hearted? I believe, Fred, that they are both perfectly
miserable," she exclaimed, with a sweeping glance of pride at her
progeny. "I was thinking just before you spoke how much I pitied that
woman."
I can remember as if it were yesterday Nick Long telling me with bubbling
ecstasy, shortly after he was engaged, that his lady-love had a clear,
analytical mind, almost like a man's. "No nonsense about her," he said.
"She sees things just as they are." I rather got the impression at the
time that he intended thereby to insinuate gently but plainly that he was
a far luckier dog than I who had married a woman with a mind
conspicuously feminine. I should like very much to know whether, if
Dorothy were to be blessed with children after all, Nick would have to go
to church.
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