But more than from shame at vain self-abasement her chagrin came from the sense of having played her game so confidently, so carelessly, so stupidly that he had seen it.

She winced as she recalled how shrewdly and swiftly he had got to the very bottom of her, especially of her selfishness in planning to use him with no thought for his good.

Yet so many women thus used their husbands; why not she?
"I suppose I began too soon....

No, not too soon, but too frigidly." The word seemed to her to illuminate the whole situation.

"That's it!" she cried.