"I never knew she had been an actress." He did not ask her how she had learnt it.

"She gave it up when we were married," he said.

"The people she would have to live among would have looked askance at her if they had known.

There seemed no reason why they should." "How did it all happen ?" she persisted.

"Was it very beautiful, in the beginning ?" She wished she had not added that last.