That she accepts the situation." He paid this the tribute of a long pull at his pipe.

"The situation of doing the one thing she can that will really seem to cover her tracks ?" His wife looked at him, the good dry man, as if now at last he was merely vulgar.

"The one thing she can do that will really make new tracks altogether.

The thing that, before any other, will be wise and right.

The thing that will best give her her chance to be magnificent." He slowly emitted his smoke.