When he took her to a theatre or a racecourse, she sat by his side meekly, and felt like a child who has been good and is reaping the reward of goodness.

And this state of things was in nowise disagreeable to her.

She was perhaps quite as happy as it was in her nature to be; for she had no exalted capacity for happiness or misery.

She felt that it was pleasant to have a handsome man, whose costume was always irreproachable, for her husband.

Her only notion of a bad husband was a man who stayed out late, and came home under the influence of strong liquors consumed in unknown localities and amongst unknown people.