Seven years--seven years a good wife to him, the kind, the good, the generous, the--And he loved me.

Oh yes.

He loved me till I sometimes wished myself--Seven years.

Seven years a wife to him.

And do you know what he was, that dear friend of yours?
Do you know what he was?
He was a devil!" The superhuman vehemence of that whispered statement completely stunned Comrade Ossipon.