Nancy made one New Year's resolution the second day
of her engagement, "If I ever find myself starting to act to Ollie the way
mother does to father I'll simply have to leave him and never see him
again." But Mrs. Ellicott goes on.
"If Oliver is at all the sort of young man we must hope he is, he will
certainly come and apologize at once. And if he should not--well Nancy, my
little girl," she adds hieroglyphically "there are many trials that seem
hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what
false materials they were first composed."
Mr. Ellicott thinks it is time for him to go to the office. It is five
minutes ahead of his usual time but Mrs. Ellicott has been looking at him
all the way through her last speech until he feels uneasily that he must
be composed of very false material indeed. He stops first though to give
an ineffective pat to Nancy's shoulder.
"Cheer up, Chick," he says kindly. "Always sun somewhere you know, so
don't treat the poor boy too hard," and he shuffles rapidly away before
his wife can look all the way through him for the vague heresy implicit in
his sentence.
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