law and in fact, for her husband had made it over to her. It was her
bread that she ate, her bed she slept in. It behooved her, therefore, to
be a little less lofty and condescending. She had always known how it
would be, and it was only because the project seemed so near her
husband's heart that she had consented to such an experiment.

In simple justice it must be said that such a thought had never entered
Nora's head. She had accepted gladly her brother's invitation to make
her home with him. What more natural that he should offer it, now that
he was able to do so? In return she was perfectly willing to do
everything she could to help in all the woman's work about the house as
far as her ignorance would permit. It could hardly be expected that she
would be as proficient in household work as a person who had done it all
her life. She was more than willing to concede her sister-in-law's
superiority in all such matters. And she was perfectly ready to learn
all that Gertie would teach her. She had, in everything, been prepared
to meet her half-way; further she would not go. For the rest, it was her
brother's place to protect her.

Sadly Nora confessed to herself that Eddie had deteriorated in a degree
that she could not have believed possible. The first shock had come when
they sat down to supper the night of her arrival. To her amazed disgust,
they had all eaten at the same table, hired men and all. And then, to
see her brother, a gentleman by birth, breeding, and training, sitting
down at his own table in his shirt-sleeves!

Her own seat was on the right of her sister-in-law, next Reginald
Hornby. All the men except Eddie wore overalls. He had replaced his with
an old black waistcoat and a pair of grubby dark trousers. Nora wondered
sarcastically if his more formal costume was in honor of her arrival,