It had been soon banished,--but it had left to her a sweet flavour, of which she loved to taste the sweetness though she knew that it was gone.

And the man should be her friend, but especially her husband's friend.

It should be her care to see that his life was successful,--and especially her husband's care.
It was a great delight to her to know that her husband liked the man.
And the man would marry, and the man's wife should be her friend.

All this had been very pure and very pleasant.

Now an idea had flitted across her brain that the man was in love with some one else,--and she did not like it! But she did not therefore become afraid of herself, or in the least realise at once the danger of her own position.