But she had persuaded him against the carriage, and there had come to be an agreement that instead of the carriage there should always be an autumn tour.

"One learns something from going about; but one learns nothing from keeping a carriage," Emily had said.

Those had been happy days, in which it had been intended that everything should always be rose-coloured.

Now he was meditating whether, in lieu of that autumn tour, it would not be necessary to take his wife away to Naples altogether, so that she might be removed from the influence of--of--of--; no, not even to himself would he think of Colonel Osborne as his wife's lover.

The idea was too horrible! And yet, how dreadful was it that he should have, for any reason, to withdraw her from the influence of any man! Lady Milborough lived ever so far away, in Eccleston Square, but Trevelyan did not say a single word to either of his companions during the journey.