Still, there was enough to warrant a separation and the payment to her of an allowance.
They had lived, she said, in a pretty little house in the suburb of Glenclair, near New York.

Now that they were separated, she had taken a little kitchenette apartment at the new Melcombe.

Her husband was living in the house, she believed, when he was not in the city at his club, "or elsewhere," she added bitterly.
"But," she confided as she finished, "it is very lonely here in a big city all alone." "I know it is," agreed Constance sympathetically as they parted.

"I, too, am often very lonely.

Call on me, especially if you find anything crooked going on.