"I don't need to suggest to you, Dredlinton," he went on, "what means you should use to make your wife obey you, but there are means, and if you're not the man to realise them, I'm very much surprised in you.

I will begin with a concrete case.

Your wife, together with that fellow Wilshaw and Miss Baldwin, have accepted an invitation from Wingate to dine and go to a theatre to-morrow night.

You must see that your wife does not go." "Very well," Dredlinton promised, "I'll manage it somehow." "See that you do," Phipps enjoined earnestly.

"Your wife is one of those misguided women with a strong sense of duty.