poor
clients or make underclothing for them? Do men, in general, consider it
a wife's place to interfere in their profession or business?"

"Clergymen are different."

"Not at all. Preaching and philanthropy is their business. They get so
much a year for doing it. I don't believe St. Jude's pays Mrs. Stanhope
a red cent. There now, and if she isn't paid, she's right not to work.
Amen to that!"

"Before she was married Dora said she felt a great interest in church
work."

"I dare say she did. Marriage makes a deal of difference in a woman's
likes and dislikes. Church work was courting-time before marriage; after
marriage she had other opportunities."

"I think you might speak to Fred Mostyn----"

"I might, but it wouldn't be worth while. Be true to your friend as long
as you can. In Yorkshire we stand by our friends, right or wrong, and
we aren't too particular as to their being right. My father enjoyed
justifying a man that everyone else was down on; and I've stood by many
a woman nobody had a good word for. I was never sorry for doing it,
either. I'll be going into a strange country soon, and I should not
wonder if some of them that have gone there first will be ready to stand
by me. We don't know what friends we'll be glad of there."

The dinner bell broke up this conversation, and Ethel during it told
Madam about the cook and cooking at the Court and at Nicholas
Rawdon's, where John Thomas had installed a French chef. Other domestic
arrangements were discussed, and when the Judge called for his daughter
at four o'clock, Madam vowed "she had spent one of the happiest days of
her life."

"Ruth tells me," said the Judge, "that Dora Stanhope called for Ethel
soon after she left home this morning. Ruth seems troubled at the
continuance of this friendship. Have you spoken to your grandmother,
Ethel, about Dora?"

"She has told me all there is to tell, I dare say," answered Madam.

"Well, mother, what do you think?"

"I see no harm in it yet awhile. It is not fair, Edward, to condemn upon
likelihoods. We are no saints, sinful men and women, all of us, and as
much inclined to forbidden fruit as any good Christians can be. Ethel
can do as she feels about it; she's got a mind of her own, and I hope to
goodness she'll not let Ruth Bayard bit and bridle it."

Going home the Judge evidently pondered this question, for he said after
a lengthy silence, "Grandmother's ethics do not always fit the social
ethics of th