"They're all passing me up to-day.

But, great hooks, what's all this about Medcroft and Constance ?" He bought some cigarets and started off for a walk, mildly excited by this new turn of affairs.

It occurred to him, as he turned it all over in his mind, that Mrs.Medcroft was amazingly resigned to the situation.
Of course, she was not blind to her husband's infatuation for her sister.

Therefore, if she were so cheerful and indifferent about it, it followed that she was not especially distressed; in fact, it suddenly dawned upon him she was not only reconciled but relieved.

She had ceased to love her husband! She could be a freelance in Love's lists, notwithstanding the inconvenience of a legal attachment.