She felt that she had let him go on long enough.
"Oh, they ought to get divorced." "You ought to be ashamed to take their money if that's what you think of them." "My dear, I have a wife to support." Beaton intervened with a question.

"Do you mean that Miss Leighton isn't standing it very well ?" "How do I know?
She isn't the kind that bends; she's the kind that breaks." After a little silence Mrs.Wetmore asked, "Won't you come home with us, Mr.Beaton ?" "Thank you; no.

I have an engagement." "I don't see why that should prevent you," said Wetmore.

"But you always were a punctilious cuss.

Well!" Beaton lingered over his cigar; but no one else whom he knew came in, and he yielded to the threefold impulse of conscience, of curiosity, of inclination, in going to call at the Leightons'.