Ropers has some very good stories about their domestic happiness,--stories confirming a theory of mine which, as I remember, made you very angry.

When they first married, Mrs .-- treated her husband with great respect.

But, when his novel came out and failed completely, she changed her conduct, and has, ever since that unfortunate publication, henpecked the poor author unmercifully.

And the case, says Ropers, is the harder, because it is suspected that she wrote part of the book herself.

It is like the scene in Milton where Eve, after tempting Adam, abuses him for yielding to temptation.