But the experience was not one that he cared to talk about.
"They don't happen here, where people are so damned clever.

But I know that they happen--sometimes--over there--in the East--_ex oriente lux_." He rose.

"Some day I shall go there or thereabouts, and see." "And leave your wife here ?" "That's it.

Do you think I ought to go ?" "I think it doesn't matter in the very least." "What do you mean ?" "I mean that whether you go or stay you'll kill her.

But go, for God's sake! It's the kindest way.".