He had been intolerable since the second week of their honeymoon.

Wholly without power of self-restraint, the furious outbursts of his vile temper had been consistently revolting.

She once more told herself that something would have to be done about it--not on the instant, however.

At the moment there appeared to her to be months to do it in.

She dropped her cigarette end into the ash-tray, and with it any further consideration of the manners and disposition of Lord Loudwater.
She lit another cigarette and let her thoughts turn to that far more appealing subject, Colonel Antony Grey.