'Well, what has happened?'
'Never mind the details. I know his feelings—and that is everything.'
'You've had a quarrel, I suppose, and he's gone out of the house in a temper. Is that it?'
'I told him that I should leave him and go away somewhere with Anne.'
'Anne wouldn't go, of course.'
'You're right. She wouldn't when I asked her this morning, or I should be on my way to Paris by now.'
'If he treated you really badly,' said Sir Charles, 'she would have gone. It must be that she knows there's nothing in it.'
'I've offered to remain, on condition that we are merely friends. And he won't hear of it.'
'No wonder,' said Sir Charles. 'Now Hyacinth you know you've always been a spoilt child and had everything on earth you wanted. You must remember in life sometimes little things won't go right.'
'Anything might have gone wrong—anything in the world, and I would have borne it and not cared—but that!'