CONFESSIONAL After all, Tyson was the first to make up the quarrel.

If a sense of justice was wanting in him it was supplied by a sense of humor, and he was very soon conscious of something ridiculous in his attitude towards Stanistreet.

He had law and nature on his side for once, but in the eyes of the humorist, or of impartial justice, there was not very much to choose between them.

In fact the advantage was on Stanistreet's side.

He, Tyson, had thrown his wife and Stanistreet together from the first, he had exposed her to what, in his view, would have been sharp temptation to nine women out of ten, and she had not wronged him by a single thought.
As for Stanistreet, he had not taken, or even attempted to take, the chance he gave him.
His tolerance showed how far he had separated himself from her.