And if these episodes were to recur the practical must not be neglected.

"It's by neglecting the practical that so many wives come to grief," reflected she.

And the first mandate of the practical was that he must be rescued from that vulgar political game, which meant poverty and low associations and tormenting uncertainties.

He must be got where his talents would have their due, their reward.

But subtly guiding him into the way that would be best for him was a far different matter from what she had been planning up to last night's moonrise--was as abysmally separated from its selfish hypocrisy as love from hate.