u for orders, not you go to them. Neither need
you speak quite so familiarly to them, treating them almost as if they
were your equals. Try to remember your true position, that whatever you
may have been you are now Mrs. Wilford Cameron, equal to any lady in New
York."

They were in the library now, and the soft May breeze came stealing
through the open window, stirring the fleecy curtain and blowing across
the tasteful bouquet which Katy had arranged; but Katy was too wretched
to care for her surroundings. It was the first time Wilford had ever
spoken to her just in this way, and his manner hurt her more than his
words, making her feel as if she were an ignorant, ill-bred creature,
whom he had raised to a position she did not know how to fill. It was
cruel thus to repay her attempts to please, and so, perhaps, Wilford
thought, as with folded arms he sat looking at her weeping so bitterly
upon the sofa; but he was too indignant to make any concession then, and
he suffered her to weep in silence until he remembered that his mother
had requested him to bring her around that evening, as they were
expecting a few of Juno's friends, and among them Sybil Grandon. If Katy
went he wished her to look her best, and he unbent so far as to try to
check her tears. But Katy could not stop, and she wept so passionately
that Wilford's anger subsided, leaving only tenderness and pity for the
wife he tried so hard to soothe, telling her he was sorry, and suing for
forgiveness, until the sobbing ceased, and Katy lay passively in his
arms, her face so white and the dark rings about her eyes showing so
distinctly that Wilford did not press her when she declined his mother's
invitation. He could go, she said, urging so many reasons why he
should, that, for the first time since their marriage, he left her
alone, and went to where Sybil Grandon smiled her sunniest smile, and
put forth her most persuasive powers to keep him at her side, expressing
so much regret that he did not bring his charming little wife, who
completely won her heart, she was so childlike and simple-hearted,
laughing so merrily when she discovered the flour on her hair, but not
seeming to mind it in the least. Really, she did not see how it happened
that he was fortunate enough to win such a domestic treasure. Where did
he find her?

If Sybil Grandon meant this to be complimentary it was not received as
such, Wilford almost grating his teeth with vexation as he listened to