There is a difference between us, Philippa, and that is why I am afraid to argue with you." "What should you do," Philippa demanded, "if Richard failed you in some great thing ?" "I might suffer," Helen confessed, "but my love would be there all the same.

Perhaps for that reason I should suffer the more, but I should never be able to see with those who judged him hardly." "You think, then," Philippa persisted, "that I ought still to remain Henry's loving and affectionate wife, ready to take my place amongst the pastimes of his life--when he feels inclined, for instance, to wander from his dark lady-love to something petite and of my complexion, or when he settles down at home for a few days after a fortnight's sport on the sea and expects me to tell him the war news ?" "I don't think that I should do that," Helen admitted quietly, "but I am quite certain that I shouldn't run away with another man." "Why not ?" "Because I should be punishing myself too much." Philippa's eyes suddenly flashed.
"Helen," she said, "you are not such a fool as you try to make me think.
Can't you see what is really at the back of it all in my mind?
Can't you realise that, whatever the punishment it may bring, it will punish Henry more ?" "I see," Helen observed.

"You are running away with Mr.Lessingham to annoy Henry ?" "Oh, he'll be more than annoyed!" Philippa laughed sardonically.

"He has terrible ideas about the sanctity of things that belong to him.

He'll be remarkably sheepish for some time to come.