If you cannot take pleasure in society that is congenial to my taste, leave me to my enjoyment, but don't mar it with your cloudy presence.

And set this down as a truism--the wife that must be watched, is not worth having." For utterances like these, Mr.Dexter was not prepared.

They stunned and weakened him.

He felt that he had a spirit to deal with that might easily be driven to desperation.

A man, if resolute, he had believed might control the actions of almost any woman--that woman being his wife.