Her eyes sought his speculatively.
"I know that Lady Clanarton is a terrible gossip," she went on.

"Was she telling me the truth when she said that your married life was not an entire success ?" "She was telling you the truth," Tallente admitted.
"I like to know everything," she suggested quietly.

"You must remember that we shall probably become intimates." "I did my wife the injustice of marrying her for money," Tallente explained.

"She married me because she thought that I could provide her with a social position such as she desired.

Our marriage was a double failure.