Besides this matter of onions, Arnold feels so acutely on everything that concerns himself that he provably could not survive unless he were well protected. Before his marriage Mrs. Hutchins, Senior, mothered him so intensively that when she passed him to Ann, it was as a sacred trust. Outwardly, he was a big, robust man, with a powerful voice, but his mother regarded him as a delicate orchid or a fragile lily. Ann had a talent for music, and was hoping for a modest career even after marriage, but the job of shielding Arnold from the disturbing contacts of life has occupied all her time and effort in the last There are so many things to upset Arhold He never wants to see any evidences of the processes j of housekeeping or hear any of its details. If their one maid leaves suddenly, if the groceries fail to appear, if the ice-man is impertinent, Arnold mustn't know about it. He is tremendously offended at sight of a broom or dust-pan and while he wishes the house to be as perfect as a perpetual cleanup day crusade, processes must he secret, silent and automatic.
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