.

There's something else, too--the shadow.

Baroni knows what it is--and Olga Lermontof.

Only I--your wife--I know nothing." She paused, as though expecting some reply, but Max remained silent, his arms folded across his chest, his head a little bent.
"I was only a child when you married me, Max," she went on presently.
"I didn't realise what it meant for a husband to have some secret business which he cannot tell his wife.

But I know now what it means.
It's merely an excuse to be always with another woman--" In a stride Max was beside her, his eyes blazing, his hands gripping her shoulders with a clasp that hurt her.
"How dare you ?" he exclaimed.