I have nothing more to say on that score; she tried to be faithful, I believe she was; but he was a scoundrel.

And she ended by thinking me one.
"Even before I married her I was made painfully aware that our dispositions and temperaments were not entirely compatible.

I think," he added grimly, "that in the letters read to you this afternoon she used the expression, 'ice and fire,' in referring to herself and me." Berkley only looked at him.
"There is now nothing to be gained in reviewing that unhappy affair," continued the other.

"Your mother's family are headlong, impulsive, fiery, unstable, emotional.

There was a last shameful and degrading scene.