The cause of the failure of them all lay probably in this,--that there was no decided point which, if conceded, would have brought about a reconciliation.

Trevelyan asked for general submission, which he regarded as his right, and which in the existing circumstances he thought it necessary to claim, and though Mrs.Trevelyan did not refuse to be submissive she would make no promise on the subject.

But the truth was that each desired that the other should acknowledge a fault, and that neither of them would make that acknowledgment.

Emily Trevelyan felt acutely that she had been ill-used, not only by her husband's suspicion, but by the manner in which he had talked of his suspicion to others,--to Lady Milborough and the cook, and she was quite convinced that she was right herself, because he had been so vacillating in his conduct about Colonel Osborne.

But Trevelyan was equally sure that justice was on his side.