And I know, dear" (another hesitation over the word), "I know you don't like women to be cold." "We will not discuss my wife," he said.

"Tell me what you have been doing, Laura.

Let me see, when did I see you last--in June ?" And the venom came to boiling-point in Laura's adder gland.

He could not even remember when he had said good-by to her! It was in July, after the Eton and Harrow match! "Yes, in June," she said sadly, turning her eyes down.

"And you might have told me, Tristram.