down with a hectic flush on one side of her face.
"Domestic troubles, of course," she said, satirically.
"Of course," I replied, with equal satire.
"Well?"
"You said you would help me when I needed your services. I need them now," I replied.
My mother meditated. I could see that she was unwilling to assist me. She dreaded anything happening which might give the matter publicity. In a word, she was afraid of me, and I admit, not without reason.
"I do not like interfering between man and wife," she began tentatively.
But I was equal to the occasion. The avalanche had started on its course, and nothing could now stop it.
"Very well," I said with palpably assumed indifference, "if you will not aid me in a matter concerning my happiness, I shall leave my husband at once."
As I said, my indifference was palpably assumed, but my mother was one of those who
