You do sometimes hear of a man who won't work and lets his wife support him, but it's very seldom, and they are always the low kind that other men look down on." "Wanted to help him." Sir Nigel selected the phrase and quoted it between puffs of the cigar he held in his fine, rather cruel-looking hands, and his voice expressed a not too subtle sneer.

"A woman is not 'helping' her husband when she gives him control of her fortune.

She is only doing her duty and accepting her proper position with regard to him.

The law used to settle the thing definitely." "Did-did it ?" Rosy faltered weakly.

She knew he was offended again and that she was once more somehow in the wrong.