As hour by hour her child grew dear to her, so hour by hour her husband grew away from her.

She schooled herself against him .-- At times she thought she hated him.

She felt she could never forgive him, but she would prove to him that it was she who had made the mistake of her life in marrying him; that she had been wronged, not he; and that his sin would face him with reproach and punishment one day.

Richard's prophecy was likely to come true: she would defeat very perfectly indeed Frank's intentions.

After the child was born, so soon as she was able, she renewed her studies with Richard and Mrs.Armour.
She read every morning for hours; she rode; she practised all those graceful arts of the toilet which belong to the social convention; she showed an unexpected faculty for singing, and practised it faithfully; and she begged Mrs.Armour and Marion to correct her at every point where correction seemed necessary.