A little confused, he smiled uneasily.

"Surely," he resumed, trying to speak gayly, "I haven't offended you ?" "There is something in the newspaper," she said, "which you don't want me to read." He denied it--but he still kept the newspaper in his own possession.

Her voice sank low; her face turned paler still.
"Is it all over ?" she asked.

"And is it put in the newspaper ?" "What do you mean ?" "I mean the Divorce." He went back again to the window and looked out.

It was the easiest excuse that he could devise for keeping his face turned away from her.
She followed him.
"I don't want to read it, Herbert.