As the order for the exclusion of this hated man from his house had been given, he should at any rate have stuck to the order.

At the moment of his vacillation he had simply intended to make things easy for his wife; but she had taken advantage of his vacillation, and had now clearly conquered him.

Perhaps he respected her more than he had done when he was resolving, three or four days since, that he would be the master in his own house; but it may be feared that the tenderness of his love for her had been impaired.
Late in the afternoon his wife and sister-in-law came down dressed for walking, and, finding Trevelyan in the library, they asked him to join them,--it was a custom with them to walk in the park on a Sunday afternoon,--and he at once assented, and went out with them.

Emily, who had had her triumph, was very gracious.

There should not be a word more said by her about Colonel Osborne.