Mrs Rimbolt knew herself to be in the wrong.

Her husband, she knew, if she laid the case before him, would judicially inquire into its merits, and come to the same conclusion.

In that case her dominion would be at an end.

Even the Mrs Rimbolts have an eye to the better half of valour sometimes, and so Jeffreys was left sitting for an ultimatum which did not come.
Raby had a still worse ordeal before her.

At first her indignation had reigned supreme and effaced all other emotions.