Mrs.Weatherley is much too kind and generous to wish you to be worried, I am sure." Then the side of the man with which Arnold wholly sympathized showed itself suddenly.

At the mention of his wife's name an expression partly fatuous, partly beatific, transformed his homely features.

He was looking at her picture which stood always opposite him.

He had the air of an adoring devotee before some sacred shrine.
"You are quite right, Chetwode," he declared, "quite right, but I am always very careful not to let my wife know how I feel.

You see, the Count Sabatini is her only relative, and before our marriage they were inseparable.