She could never again live with a husband who had disgraced his wife by desiring her own cook to keep a guard upon her.

Had the footman been instructed not to admit Colonel Osborne, there would have been in such instruction some apparent adherence to the recognised usages of society.

If you do not desire either your friend or your enemy to be received into your house, you communicate your desire to the person who has charge of the door.

But the cook! "And now, Nora, if it were you, do you mean to say that you would remain with him ?" asked Mrs.Trevelyan.
Nora simply replied that anything under any circumstances would be better than a separation.
On the morning of the third day there came the following letter:-- Wednesday, June 1, 12 midnight.
DEAREST EMILY, You will readily believe me when I say that I never in my life was so wretched as I have been during the last two days.

That you and I should be in the same house together and not able to speak to each other is in itself a misery, but this is terribly enhanced by the dread lest this state of things should be made to continue.
I want you to understand that I do not in the least suspect you of having as yet done anything wrong,--or having even said anything injurious either to my position as your husband, or to your position as my wife.