"Unless," he resumed, "you can get over your present feeling about your wife." "Get over it ?" Mr.Gallilee repeated.
"It seems quite impossible now, I dare say," the worthy lawyer admitted.
"A very painful impression has been produced on you.

Naturally! naturally! But the force of habit--a married life of many years--your own kind feeling--" "What do you mean ?" asked Mr.Gallilee, bewildered, impatient, almost angry.
"A little persuasion on your part, my good friend--at the interesting moment of reconciliation--might be followed by excellent results.

Mrs.
Gallilee might not object to waive her claims, until time has softened existing asperities.

Surely, a compromise is possible, if you could only prevail on yourself to forgive your wife." "Forgive her?
I should be only too glad to forgive her!" cried Mr.
Gallilee, bursting into violent agitation.

"How am I to do it?
Good God! Mool, how am I to do it?
_You_ didn't hear those infamous words.