But you were better versed in the heart's lore, and knew he would wake up, ere many moons had passed, to the sad discovery that what he had wooed as substance was only a cheating shadow.

And he is waking up.

Every day he is becoming more and more clearly convinced that you do not love him, and can never be to him the wife he had fondly hoped to gain.

Have you not laid upon yourself a binding obligation?
Is it a light thing so to mar the whole life of man?
Your duty is plain, Mrs.Dexter.Yield all to him you can, and put on towards him always the sunniest aspects and gentlest semblances of your character.

If he is capricious, humor him; if suspicious, act with all promptness in removing suspicion to the extent of your power.