"We succeeded in hushing things up," said my visitor, an old man with iron-grey whiskers and a careworn sensitive face.

"I have some influence myself, and his wife's relations--" "His wife!" I ejaculated.

The ways of men are further than ever from interpretation.

The fellow was actually married! "Yes," he sighed.

"That is what would have made such a terrible scandal.
Her relatives are powerful people.