They pored over the `` etiquette column '' every week , and could have told you on demand , just exactly what kind of gloves should be worn at a wedding , what you should say when introducing or being introduced , and how you ought to look when your best young man came to see you . `` They say Mrs. Richard Cook asked HER husband to marry her , '' said Dan . `` Uncle Roger says she did n't exactly ask him , but she helped the lame dog over the stile so slick that Richard was engaged to her before he knew what had happened to him , '' said the Story Girl . `` I know a story about Mrs. Richard Cook 's grandmother . She was one of those women who are always saying ' I told you so -- ' '' `` Take notice , Felicity , '' said Dan aside . '' -- And she was very stubborn . Soon after she was married she and her husband quarrelled about an apple tree they had planted in their orchard . The label was lost . He said it was a Fameuse and she declared it was a Yellow Transparent . They fought over it till the neighbours came out to listen . Finally he got so angry that he told her to shut up . They did n't have any Family Guide in those days , so he did n't know it was n't polite to say shut up to your wife . I suppose she thought she would teach him manners , for would you believe it ? That woman did shut up , and never spoke one single word to her husband for five years . And then , in five years ' time , the tree bore apples , and they WERE Yellow Transparents . And then she spoke at last . She said , ' I told you so . ' '' `` And did she talk to him after that as usual ? '' asked Sara Ray . `` Oh , yes , she was just the same as she used to be , '' said the Story Girl wearily .
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