It was noticeable that he had not used the same expression in speaking of Lady Maud.

Nevertheless, as in the Bamberger affair, he appeared as the chief cause of trouble between husband and wife.

Logotheti was considered 'dangerous' even in Paris, and his experiences had not been dull; but, so far, he had found his way through life without inadvertently stepping upon any of those concealed traps through which the gay and unwary of both sexes are so often dropped into the divorce court, to the surprise of everybody.

It seemed the more strange to him that Rufus Van Torp, only a few years his senior, should now find himself in that position for the second time.

Yet Van Torp was not a ladies' man; he was hard-featured, rough of speech, and clumsy of figure, and it was impossible to believe that any woman could think him good-looking or be carried away by his talk.