They were still much together, for she could not turn him away, and he would not stay away.

There was more pleading on his part, and more anger sometimes.

It seemed to him absurd that lives should be blighted because of a legend.
And she was unhappy, and, it may be, gradually attaining to broader views and moral bravery.

Jean Cornish was courageous, but there was the legend.
And suddenly all was changed, the problem finding a solution not expected.

Grant Harlson's wife was, as has been said, a woman of reason and of force, and she had her own life, with its objects.