A wife does not feel that her chances of happiness are increased when she finds that her husband suspects her of being too intimate with another man.

It is a thing very hard to bear.

But I would have endeavoured to bear it, knowing how important it is for both our sakes, and more especially for our child.

I would have made excuses, and would have endeavoured to think that this horrid feeling on his part is nothing more than a short delusion." "But my dear--" "I must ask you to hear me out, Lady Milborough.

But when he tells me first that I am not to meet the man, and so instructs the servants; then tells me that I am to meet him, and go on just as I was going before, and then again tells me that I am not to see him, and again instructs the servants,--and, above all, the cook!--that Colonel Osborne is not to come into the house, then obedience becomes rather difficult." "Just say now that you will do what he wants, and then all will be right." "I will not say so to you, Lady Milborough.