It's a way wives have—they repay the superabundance of your devotion during the courtship.
CHARLES SYLVESTER.
Exactly. She's jealous.
REMBRANDT TEMPENNY.
Of whom?
CHARLES SYLVESTER.
Of nobody—of everyone. Of my past, which was rather more decent than most fellows—of my life to-day, which is a pattern for a County Councillor.
REMBRANDT TEMPENNY.
Poor beggar.
CHARLES SYLVESTER.