She married me because she was an American with ambitions, anxious to find a definite place in English society.

She has been disappointed in me.
Other circumstances have now presented themselves.

I have discovered that my wife's affections are bestowed elsewhere.

To be perfectly honest, the discovery was a relief to me." "So that is why you are living down here like this ?" she murmured.
"Precisely! The one thing for which I am grateful," he went on, "is that I always refused to let my wife take a big country house.

I insisted upon an unpretentious place for the times when I could rest.