He escaped as soon as he could from Lady Milborough's room, and almost declared as he did so, that he would never enter her doors again.

She had utterly failed to see the matter in the proper light.

When she talked of Naples she must surely have been unable to comprehend the extent of the ill-usage to which he, the husband, had been subjected.

How was it possible that he should live under the same roof with a wife who claimed to herself the right of receiving visitors of whom he disapproved,--a visitor,--a gentleman,--one whom the world called her lover?
He gnashed his teeth and clenched his fist as he thought of his old friend's ignorance of the very first law in a married man's code of laws.
But yet when he was out in the streets he did not post his letter at once; but thought of it throughout the whole day, trying to prove the weight of every phrase that he had used.

Once or twice his heart almost relented.