But he was still angry.

'The reckoning comes to some men,' he said, 'even in this world.

He will live to rue the day when he married that woman!' Agnes took a chair by his side, and looked at him with a gentle surprise.
'Is it quite reasonable to be so angry with her, because your brother preferred her to me ?' she asked.
Henry turned on her sharply.

'Do you defend the Countess, of all the people in the world ?' 'Why not ?' Agnes answered.

'I know nothing against her.