There are wider, greater considerations." These were the first words of comfort which Mrs.Pettifer had heard since her husband began to expound.

She received them with enthusiasm.
"I am so glad to hear that." "Yes, Margaret," Pettifer retorted drily.

"But please ask yourself this question: (it is where, to my thinking, the social and the personal elements join) if this marriage is broken off, is Dick likely to marry at all ?" "Why not ?" asked Margaret.
"He is thirty-four.

He has had, no doubt, many opportunities of marriage.

He must have had.