I may believe of her what I please, but, think what the world will believe! I cannot disgrace myself by living with a woman who persists in holding intercourse with a man whom the world speaks of as her lover." "Take her to Naples," said Lady Milborough, with all the energy of which she was capable.
"I can take her nowhere, nor will I see her, till she has given proof that her whole conduct towards me has been altered.

I have written a letter to her, and I have brought it.

Will you excuse me if I ask you to take the trouble to read it ?" Then he handed Lady Milborough the letter, which she read very slowly, and with much care.
"I don't think I would--would--would--" "Would what ?" demanded Trevelyan.
"Don't you think that what you say is a little,--just a little prone to make,--to make the breach perhaps wider ?" "No, Lady Milborough.

In the first place, how can it be wider ?" "You might take her back, you know; and then if you could only get to Naples!" "How can I take her back while she is corresponding with this man ?" "She wouldn't correspond with him at Naples." Trevelyan shook his head and became cross.

His old friend would not at all do as old friends are expected to do when called upon for advice.
"I think," said he, "that what I have proposed is both just and generous." "But, Louis, why should there be any separation ?" "She has forced it upon me.