And with marvellous rapidity the whole position started up before her.

She saw, with preternatural insight, into its nooks and corners.

Something he had said one day, when they were talking of the Church view of marriage and divorce, lighted all up.

So he had really never known about her! At this moment of utter sickness, she was saved from fainting by her sense of humour--her cynicism.

Not content to let her be, people's tongues had divorced her; he had believed them! And the crown of irony was that he should want to marry her, when she felt so utterly, so sacredly his, to do what he liked with sans forms or ceremonies.