"And pleased," said she, "and pleased me of course."

That same day (I will not say but what I watched) I had
the satisfaction to see Mr. Henry come from his wife's room
in a state most unlike himself; for his face was all bloated
with weeping, and yet he seemed to me to walk upon the
air. By this, I was sure his wife had made him full amends
for once. "Ah," thought I, to myself, "I have done a
brave stroke this day."

On the morrow, as I was seated at my books, Mr. Henry
came in softly behind me, took me by the shoulders and
shook me in a manner of playfulness. "I find you are a faith-
less fellow after all, ' ' says he ; which was his only reference
to my part, but the tone he spoke in was more to me than
any eloquence of protestation. Nor was this all I had
effected ; for when the next messenger came (as he did not
long afterward) from the master, he got nothing away with
him but a letter. For some while back, it had been I my-
self who had conducted these affairs; Mr. Henry not setting
pen to paper, and I only in the driest and most formal
terms. But this letter I did not even see ; it would scarce be
pleasant reading, for Mr. Henry felt he had his wife behind
him for once, and I observed, on the day it was dispatched,
he had a very gratified expression.
