When her life had become intolerable WITH HIM, he tried to make it shameful WITHOUT HIM by abandoning her.

She could get a divorce a dozen times over, but she won't." "I suppose that's what makes her so very attractive to gentlemen," said Mrs.Barker ironically.
"I have never seen her before," continued Stacy, with business precision, "although I and two other men are guardians of her property, and have saved it from the clutches of her husband.

They told me she was handsome--and so she is." Pleased with the sudden human weakness of Stacy, Barker glanced at his wife for sympathy.

But she was looking studiously another way, and the young husband's eyes, still full of his gratification, fell upon Mrs.Horncastle's.

She looked away with a bright color.