"To continue to correspond with him after what I have said to her!" exclaimed Trevelyan.

"Take her to Naples at once,"-- said Lady Milborough;--"at once!" "And have him after me ?" said Trevelyan.
Lady Milborough had no answer ready, and not having thought of this looked very blank.

"I should find it harder to deal with her there even than here," continued Trevelyan.

Then it was that Lady Milborough spoke of the small town in the west of France, urging as her reason that such a man as Colonel Osborne would certainly not follow them there; but Trevelyan had become indignant at this, declaring that if his wife's good name could be preserved in no other manner than that, it would not be worth preserving at all.

Then Lady Milborough had begun to cry, and had continued crying for a very long time.