It seemed that his wife, who had yielded to him, was determined to take out the value of her submission in the most disagreeable words which she could utter.

Nora now closed the letter and handed it back to her brother-in-law.

He laid it down on the table beside him, and sat for a while with his eyes fixed upon his book.

At last he spoke again.

"Colonel Osborne says that he will call to-morrow at luncheon time.