Have you consulted her wishes ?" "Always!" "Consult them now then, and bid her come back to you." "No;--never! As far as I can see, I will never do so.

The moment she is away from me this man goes to her, and she receives him.

She must have known that she was wrong,--and you must know it." "I do not think that she is half so wrong as you yourself," said Stanbury.

To this Trevelyan made no answer, and they both remained silent some minutes.

Stanbury had a communication to make before he went, but it was one which he wished to delay as long as there was a chance that his friend's heart might be softened;--one which he need not make if Trevelyan would consent to receive his wife back to his house.