He'll seek compensations elsewhere and won't mind any ridicule--!" "Whom are you speaking of as 'her' ?" Mrs.Brook asked as on feeling that something in her face had made him stop.

"I wasn't referring," she explained, "to his wife." "Oh!" said Vanderbank.
"Aggie doesn't matter," she went on.
"Oh!" he repeated.

"You meant the Duchess ?" he then threw off.
"Don't be silly!" she rejoined.

"He MAY not become unhappy--God grant NOT!" she developed.

"But if he does he'll take it out of Nanda." Van appeared to challenge this.