And then she had again taken to writing notes to him and receiving notes from him,--none of which she showed to her husband.

She was more intimate with him than ever, and yet she hardly ever mentioned his name to her husband.

Trevelyan, acknowledging to himself that he had done no good by his former interference, feeling that he had put himself in the wrong on that occasion, and that his wife had got the better of him, had borne with all this, with soreness and a moody savageness of general conduct, but still without further words of anger with reference to the man himself.

But now, on this Sunday, when his wife had been closeted with Colonel Osborne in the back drawing-room, leaving him with his sister-in-law, his temper had become too hot for him, and he had suddenly left the house, declaring that he would not walk with the two women on that day.

"Why not, Louis ?" his wife had said, coming up to him.