She took but little wooing, was indeed so enchanted to be wooed that Ewen Hooper soon imagined himself in love with her; and all was done.
Nor indeed had it answered so badly for him--for a time.

She had given him children, and a home, though an uncomfortable one.

Greek scholarship and Greek beauty were the real idols of his heart and imagination.

They did not fail him.

But his wife did him one conspicuous ill turn.