He was extremely unhappy.
Mr.Lanley grew to dread the visits of his huge, blond son-in-law, who used actually to sob in the library, and ask for explanations of something which Mr.Lanley had never been able to understand.
And how obstinate Adelaide had been! She, who had been such a docile girl, and then for many years so completely under the thumb of her splendid-looking husband, had suddenly become utterly intractable.

She would listen to no reason and brook no delay.

She had been willing enough to explain; she had explained repeatedly, but the trouble was he could not understand the explanation.

She did not love her husband any more, she said.

Mr.Lanley pointed out to her that this was no legal grounds for a divorce.
"Yes, but I look down upon him," she went on.
"On poor Joe ?" her father had asked innocently, and had then discovered that this was the wrong thing to say.