Was she the personification of justice?
Was this but a foretaste of the ostracism of the world?
"When we were first married, Constance," he began sadly, "I was only a clerk for Green & Co., at two thousand a year.

We talked it over.

I stayed and in time became cashier at five thousand.

But you know as well as I that five thousand does not meet the social obligations laid on us by our position in the circle in which we are forced to move." His voice had become cold and hard, but he did not allow himself to be betrayed into adding, as he might well have done in justice to himself, that to her even a thousand dollars a month would have been only a beginning.

It was not that she had been accustomed to so much in the station of life from which he had taken her.