He is at liberty to inform you of what passed.

But in case he does not, there is one detail which you ought to know: your husband believes that you once paid a visit to my apartments.

It is unlikely that he will repeat the accusation and I think there is no occasion for you to worry.

However, it is only proper that you should know this--which is my only excuse for writing you a letter that requires no acknowledgment.

Very truly yours, "PHILIP SELWYN." To this letter she wrote an excited and somewhat incoherent reply; and rereading it in troubled surprise, he began to recognise in it something of the strange, illogical, impulsive attitude which had confronted him in the first weeks of his wedded life.
Here was the same minor undertone of unrest sounding ominously through every line; the same illogical, unhappy attitude which implied so much and said so little, leaving him uneasy and disconcerted, conscious of the vague recklessness and veiled reproach--dragging him back from the present through the dead years to confront once more the old pain, the old bewilderment at the hopeless misunderstanding between them.
He wrote in answer: "For the first time in my life I am going to write you some unpleasant truths.