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Mr and Mrs Outhouse had both seen the necessity of sleeping
upon the matter. They had slept upon it, and the discourse between them
on the second day was so doubtful in its tone that more sleeping would
probably have been necessary had not Mr Trevelyan appeared and
compelled them to a decision.
'You must remember that I make no charge against her,' said Trevelyan,
after the matter had been discussed for about an hour.
'Then why should she not come back to you?' said Mr Outhouse, timidly.
'Some day she may if she will be obedient. But it cannot be now. She
has set me at defiance; and even yet it is too clear from the tone of
her letter to me that she thinks that she has been right to do so. How
could we live together in amity when she addresses me as a cruel
tyrant?'
'Why did she go away at first?' asked Mrs Outhouse.
'Because she would compromise my name by an intimacy which I did not
approve. But I do not come here to defend myself, Mrs Outhouse. You
probably think that I have been wrong.


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