She was an agreeable woman, an amusing companion, very suggestive, inciting, animating; and her past history must be left as her own.

Did it matter to him?
What he saw was bright, a silver crescent on the side of the shadowy ring.

Were it a question of marrying her!--That was out of the possibilities.

He remembered, moreover, having heard from a man, who professed to know, that Mrs.Warwick had started in married life by treating her husband cavalierly to an intolerable degree: 'Such as no Englishman could stand,' the portly old informant thundered, describing it and her in racy vernacular.

She might be a devil of a wife.