You can admit him, if you please, and thank him for the trouble he has taken in this matter." "I shall not remain in the room if he be admitted," said Mrs.
Trevelyan.
There was silence again for some minutes, and the cloud upon Trevelyan's brow became blacker than before.

Then he rose from his chair and walked round to the sofa on which his wife was sitting.

"I presume," said he, "that your wishes and mine in this matter must be the same." "I cannot tell what your wishes are," she replied.

"I never was more in the dark on any subject in my life.

My wishes at present are confined to a desire to save you as far as may be possible from the shame which must be attached to your own suspicions." "I have never had any suspicions." "A husband without suspicions does not intercept his wife's letters.
A husband without suspicions does not call in the aid of his servants to guard his wife.