CHAPTER XII.
OF THE LAMPS OF THE MANSIONS--THE AMBASSADOR PLEA Mrs.Hurstwood was not aware of any of her husband's moral defections, though she might readily have suspected his tendencies, which she well understood.

She was a woman upon whose action under provocation you could never count.

Hurstwood, for one, had not the slightest idea of what she would do under certain circumstances.

He had never seen her thoroughly aroused.

In fact, she was not a woman who would fly into a passion.