And so you see that the wife of an intoxicated army officer or lawyer or banker may be in as much danger from his drunken and insane fury, when alone with him and unprotected, as the wife of a street-sweeper or hod-carrier." "I have never thought of it in that way." "No, perhaps not.

Cases of wife-beating and personal injuries, of savage and frightful assaults, of terrors and sufferings endured among the refined and educated, rarely if ever come to public notice.

Family pride, personal delicacy and many other considerations seal the lips in silence.

But there are few social circles in which it is not known that some of its members are sad sufferers because of a husband's or a father's intemperance, and there are many, many families, alas! which have always in their homes the shadow of a sorrow that embitters everything.

They hide it as best they can, and few know or dream of what they endure." Dr.Angier joined the two men at this moment, and heard the last remark.