“Do I though! But men are all alike: just babies, and you have to flatter them and wheedle them and let them think they’re having their own way. Don’t you find it so, my Lady!”

“I’m afraid I haven’t much experience.”

Connie paused in her occupation.

“Even your husband, did you have to manage him, and wheedle him like a baby?” she asked, looking at the other woman.

Mrs. Bolton paused too.

“Well!” she said. “I had to do a good bit of coaxing, with him too. But he always knew what I was after, I must say that. But he generally gave in to me.”

“He was never the lord and master thing?”