iage."

"They wanted you to put it off?"

"Mother did--the old man never interferes. She had got into her head,
you see, that the only way for me to make a living was to marry one, so
it was a little while before she could get used to the idea that I was
going to marry because I wanted to, not because my family wanted me to.
She was a brick though when she found out I was in earnest. Mother is
true blue when you know how to take her."

"But you never told me."

"You bet I didn't. If I had, as likely as not, you would be Gabriella
Mary Carr at this minute."

Drawing gently out of his grasp, which had grown possessive, she stood
looking at him with a smile in which tenderness and irony mingled; and
the tenderness was her own, while the irony seemed to belong to the
vision of an impersonal spectator of life. The smile fascinated him. He
could not withdraw his gaze from it, and yet it had the disturbing
effect of placing her at an emotional distance.

"Your mother is very good to me," she said, "but I feel somehow as if I
had taken an unfair advantage of her. And you hadn't even told her," she
added, "that we are going to take an apartment in June."

"Oh, that's all right--there's plenty of time," he responded irritably.
"Only you mustn't make mountains out of molehills."

Then, because she dreaded his anger, she gave up her point as she had
given up many before. He was irresponsible, but he was hers and she
loved him.

"I am so sleepy," she said, stifling a yawn, "that I feel as if I could
cry."

Marriage, at the end of a month, had already disciplined the fearless
directness of Gabriella. She had learned not to answer back when she
knew she was right; she had learned to appear sweet when her inner
spirit demanded a severe exterior; she had learned to hold her tongue
when a veritable torrent of words rose to her lips. And these lessons,
which George's temper and her own reason had taught her, remained with
her in the future, long after she had forgotten George and the sever

Martha Finley (1828 - 1909) was a teacher and author of numerous works, the most well known being the 28 volume Elsie Dinsmore series which was published over a span of 38 years. The daughter of Presbyterian minister Dr. James Brown Finley and his wife and cousin Maria Theresa Brown Finley, she was born on April 26th, 1828 in Chillicothe, Ohio. Finley wrote many of her books under the psodonym Martha Farquharson. She died in 1909 in Elkton, Maryland, where she moved in 1876.

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