Her husband made a motion to follow, but Mrs.Loring laid her hand upon his arm.
"Light breaks into my mind," she said.

"It was because you charged her with dishonorable intent that she fled from you?
A man should be well fortified with proofs before he ventures so far.

_I_ will believe nothing against her, except on the clearest evidence.

Can you adduce it ?" There was a homely force in this mode of presenting the subject that had the effect to open the eyes of Dexter a little to the unpleasant aspect of his position.

What proof had he of his wife's infidelity--and yet he had gone so far as to say that he had reason to believe her not true to him, and that she had been detected in questionable intimacy with some one at Newport! "Can you adduce the evidence, Mr.Dexter ?" repeated Mrs.Loring.
"I may have been hasty," he said, moving back into the room.