He would have asked nothing better than to profess himself open-minded to Mrs.Wayne's views, only he could not desert Adelaide in the moment of her struggle for beliefs in which he himself had brought her up.

And now she had deserted him.

He alone was left to flaunt a banner the motto of which he didn't wholly believe, while Adelaide, at a word from Vincent, had gone over to the other side.

And no one knew what his loyalty had cost him.

Long ago, in his first year at college, he had flunked the examination of the professor whom he reverenced above all others.