In doing so he had shown scant consideration for his wife, however, as it left a burden upon her shoulders that must have taxed her strength.

But she was not unequal to it.

Her smile broadened after he had gone, and there was a tone of deeper sincerity in her expressions of regard.

We had been to dinner, and if she would kindly send a little cold lunch to our room at bedtime that would be quite sufficient.

During her absence for dinner the reaction came.