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You can
admit him, if you please, and thank him for the trouble he has
taken in this matter.'
'I shall not remain in the room if he be admitted,' said Mrs
Trevelyan.
There was silence again for some minutes, and the cloud upon
Trevelyan's brow became blacker than before. Then he rose from his
chair and walked round to the sofa on which his wife was sitting.
'I presume,' said he, 'that your wishes and mine in this matter
must be the same.'
'I cannot tell what your wishes are,' she replied. 'I never was
more in the dark on any subject in my life. My wishes at present
are confined to a desire to save you as far as may be possible from
the shame which must be attached to your own suspicions.'
'I have never had any suspicions.'
'A husband without suspicions does not intercept his wife's
letters. A husband without suspicions does not call in the aid of
his servants to guard his wife. A husband without suspicions.'
'Emily,' exclaimed Nora Rowley, 'how can you say such things on
purpose to provoke him?'
'Yes; on purpose to provoke me,' said Trevelyan.


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