[The Lighted Way by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lighted Way CHAPTER XII 6/31
If they do, it means the end." "Well, I'm sorry to hear what you tell me," Arnold said.
"I haven't seen much of Mr.Weatherley, of course, but he seems devoted to his wife." "Infatuated, sir! Infatuated is the word!" Mr.Jarvis declared. "She is very charming," Arnold remarked, thoughtfully. Mr.Jarvis looked as though there were many things which he could have said but refrained from saying. "You will not suggest, Chetwode," he asked, "that she married Mr. Weatherley for any other reason than because he was a rich man ?" Arnold was silent for a moment.
Somehow or other, he had accepted the fact of her being Mrs.Weatherley without thinking much as to its significance. "I suppose," he admitted, "that Mr.Weatherley's money was an inducement." "There is never anything but evil," Mr.Jarvis declared, "comes from a man or a woman marrying out of their own circle of friends.
Now Mr.Weatherley might have married a dozen ladies from his own circle here.
One I know of, a very handsome lady, too, whose father has been Lord Mayor.
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