The condition, if they are much beaten about, prepares true lovers, through their mutual tenderness, to be bitterly misanthropical.
Livia supposed the novel economic pinches to be the cause of Henrietta's unwonted harsh judgement of her sister-in-law's misconduct, or the crude expression of it.

She could not guess that Carinthia's unhappiness in marriage was a spectre over the married happiness of the pair fretted by the conscience which told them they had come together by doing much to bring it to pass.

Henrietta could see herself less the culprit when she blamed Carinthia in another's hearing.
After some repose, the cousins treated their horrible misadventure as a piece of history.

Livia was cool; she had not a husband involved in it, as Henrietta had; and London's hoarse laugh surely coming on them, spared her the dread Henrietta suffered, that Chillon would hear; the most sensitive of men on any matter touching his family.
'And now a sister added to the list! Will there be names, Livia ?' 'The newspapers!' Livia's shoulders rose.
'We ought to have sworn the gentlemen to silence.' 'M.

de St.Ombre is a tomb until he writes his Memoirs.