He sanctioned the visits and was on most friendly terms with the discarded suitor.

For some months it went on, this underhand and infamous intimacy, and the wronged husband saw nothing.

It was Furniss who first opened his eyes to the truth, and a terrible scene ensued.

The husband refused passionately to believe a word against the truth and purity of the wife he loved, and called his friend a liar and a slanderer.
"'Very well,' said Furniss, coolly, 'bluster as much as you please, dear boy, and, when you are tired, go home.

It is an hour earlier than you generally return.