That was her allowance.

Having obtained Smyth, oughtn't she to have stood back and given some other woman a chance--now, oughtn't she ?" "Really, madam, I am hardly able to express an opinion." "But no.

After a while Smyth succumbed.

He died.

She entombed him, crying, mind you, all the time, as if, having lost Smyth, she wanted to die and join Smyth in the grave and in Paradise.