"I do put it before you in that way. But that isn't the worst of what you could do—you'd leave me unsettled and unhappy for ever if you went away to-night that way—Charley!—"
"What can you mean—?"
"Things are moving fast to-night, Charley, and we're discussing matters pretty openly—"
"Yes," he nodded. "I don't want to set a wife against her husband. Neither must you. But the truth is, Mr. Rawn is not what a good many think he is—"
VII
"Do you think that's news to me?" she asked of him, and looked full into his eyes.
"Good God, Mrs. Rawn! What do you mean?"
"Much what you do!"
"But you loved him—you married him!"
"Oh, yes, surely. That was some months ago. But you see, there's a distinction between master and superior."