She Taught Him A Lesson

He settled himselí back in his ehair with a self-satisfied air and said: "Things have changed Borne since ■ive -n-ere married, haven't they Mary?" "A great deal, Joe," ehe replied, quietly. "The first year was pretty hard," he went on. "I didn't make any more than enough to pull us through. But I told you then I'd get up; and I have." "Yes," 6he admitted, "you have. You've made it much easier for me, financially." "And I've worked hard to do it," he eaid, with some pride, 'Tve practically worked night and day." She nodded, and he continued: 'Til do better yet, Mary. I'll have you even more comfortable than now." "Youu -vill if you keep on working as you have worked," she said, "but- ' "But what, Mary?" "I'ye sometimes wondered, Joe," with a faint smile, "if you quite understood the clergyman." "The- why, Jlary '."' "The clergyman who married us." "Why, -vvhat have I done ?" he asked, suddenly, straightening up in his chair. "Xothing -vvrong, I suppose, Joe," she replied in the same quiet way, "but it lias seemed sometimes- just a fancy of mine, perhaps- it has seemed as though you thought you had married the office. It sees more of you tlian - than - " She stopped. It -wasn't necessary to say any more. It was only necessary to kiss him to show that it was not in a purely fault-finding spirit that she spoke, and she did that. And the lesson that money- well, the