He knew well that he could not begin again with his wife on the next day as though nothing had happened.

Stanbury's visit to him, if it had done nothing else, had made this impossible.

He determined that he would not go to her room to-night, but would see her as early as possible in the morning;--and would then talk to her with all the wisdom of which he was master.
How many husbands have come to the same resolution; and how few of them have found the words of wisdom to be efficacious!.