Perhaps Julius had been cross with her; and if Sophia has a grievance, she never rests until she passes it on to some one." Women still hold the divining-cup, and Charlotte was not far wrong in her supposition.

In spite of their twinship of soul, and in spite of that habit of loving which was involved in their belief "that they had been husband and wife in many a previous existence," Mr.and Mrs.Julius Sandal disagreed as conventionally as the ordinary husband and wife of one existence.

The day on which the Florence letter was written had been a very unhappy one for Sophia.

Julius had quarrelled with her about some very trivial affair, and had gone out in a temper disgracefully at variance with the occasion for it; and Sophia had sat all day nursing her wrath in her darkened room.

She did not dress for the evening drive, for she had determined to "keep up" her anger until Julius made her some atonement.
But when he came home, she could not resist his air of confidence and satisfaction.