You're letting Diana pledge herself blindly, when you're not free to give her the confidence a man should give his wife--when you don't even know--yet--how it may all end." Almost Baroni's very words! Max winced.
"No.

I don't know how it will end, as you say.

But surely there _will_ come a time when I shall be free to live my own life ?" Adrienne smiled a trifle wistfully.
"If your conscience ever lets you," she said.
There was a long silence.

Presently she resumed:--- "I never thought, when you first told me about your engagement, that the position of affairs need make any difference.

I was so pleased to think that you cared for each other! And now--where will it all end?
How many lives are going to be darkened by the same shadow?
Oh, it's terrible, Max, terrible!" The tears filled her eyes.
"Don't!" said Max unsteadily.