But then we led such a jolly life in it--_we_ made it!" She looked at him brightly, only to see in him an angry flash of expression.

He turned and faced her.
"I'm glad you think it was jolly.

My remembrances are not quite so pleasant." She laughed a little--not flinching at all--her face rosy to his challenge.
"Oh, yes, they are--or should be.

What's the use of blackening the past because it couldn't be the present.

My dear Roger, if I hadn't--well, let's talk plainly!--if I hadn't thrown you over, where would you be now?
We should be living in West Kensington, and I should be taking boarders--or--no!--a country-house, perhaps, with paying guests.