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He was shown his place once for all , and he took it , -- alongside that husband who described his domestic arrangements by saying that he and his wife got along beautifully together , they had come to an arrangement by which he was to have his way on all major issues , and she was to have her way on all minor issues , and so far no major issues had arisen . But really it was a very good thing ; for Gladys Frisbie Gudge was an excellent manager , and set to work making herself a nest as busily as any female beaver . She still hung on to her manicurist job , for she had figured it out that the Red movement must be just about destroyed by now , and pretty soon Peter might find himself without work . In the evenings she took to house-hunting , and during her noon hour , without consulting Peter she selected the furniture and the wall-paper , and pretty nearly bought out the stock of a five-and-ten-cent store to equip the beaver 's nest . Gladys Frisbie Gudge was a diligent reader of the fashion magazines , and kept herself right up to the minute with the styles ; also she had got herself a book on etiquette , and learned it by heart from cover to cover , and now she took Peter in hand and taught it to him . Why must he always be a `` Jimmie Higgins '' of the `` Whites ? '' Why should he not acquire the vocabulary of an educated man , the arts and graces of the well-to-do ?