During the whole of the morning she was to be absorbed in household cares.

In the afternoon he would take her to walk or drive, and the evening he wished her to spend either in drawing-room or library, occupied with a book.

Monica soon found that his idea of wedded happiness was that they should always be together.

Most reluctantly he consented to her going any distance alone, for whatever purpose.

Public entertainments he regarded with no great favour, but when he saw how Monica enjoyed herself at concert or theatre, he made no objection to indulging her at intervals of a fortnight or so; his own fondness for music made this compliance easier.