And when it does come you'll see me and Eddy just waltzin' in and takin' the chief seats in the synagogue! And you'll have a free pass to the show!" Either he was too intoxicated with his vengeful vision, or the shadows of the room had deepened, but he did not see the quick flush that had risen to his wife's face with this allusion to Barker, nor the after-settling of her handsome features into a dogged determination equal to his own.

His blind fury against the three partners did not touch her curiosity; she was only struck with the evident depth of his emotion.

He had never been a braggart; his hostility had always been lazy and cynical.

Remembering this, she had a faint stirring of respect for the undoubted courage and consciousness of strength shown in this wild but single-handed crusade against wealth and power; rather, perhaps, it seemed to her to condone her own weakness in her youthful and inexplicable passion for him.

No wonder she had submitted.
"Then you have nothing more to tell me ?" she said after a pause, rising and going towards the mantel.
"You needn't light up for me," he returned, rising also.