All unaccoutred as he was, he stood in the doorway between the two rooms, and thence fulminated at his wife his assurances that he would never allow himself to be immersed in such a depth of humility as that she had suggested.

"I can tell you this, then, that if ever she comes here, I shall take care to be away.

I will never receive her here.

You can do as you please." "That is just what I cannot do.

If I could do as I pleased, I would put a stop to it at once." "It seems to me that you want to encourage him.