Do you mind so much not going about unless I can be with you ?" "No, of course not." Her voice was sweet and submissive, but her body did not relax.

She added graciously: "After all, there are so many luncheons, and we often dance in the afternoon." He had not thought of that! What avail to guard her merely in the evening?
It was not her life that was in danger....
And he seemed as immeasurably far from obtaining her confidence as before.

He had always understood that the ways of matrimonial diplomacy were strewn with pitfalls and wished that some one had opened a school for married men before his time.
He made another clumsy attempt.

The cab was swift and had almost covered the long distance between the Western Addition and Russian Hill.

"Other things have worried me.