"Oh, I guess it isn't very defiling to turn to her from Fanny Carr! I'll do as I please!" she impatiently thought.
Still, it had been rather daring.

It fitted in exactly with several talks she had had of late with Dwight, her music teacher: talks in which each one of them had taken rather a challenging tone that had grown distinctly intimate.

One night when Joe was out of town she had gone with Dwight to the opera.

And she had not mentioned it to Joe--not that she felt guilty at all, she had simply dropped it out of her mind.

In love with her husband?
Yes, indeed.