"With Mrs. Amherst!" Lorraine exclaimed. "She has taken him back?"
"So to-night's Telegraph says."
"H-u-m—I suppose some people will think I should do that too."
"Many persons, many minds," replied Cameron. "However, it's no one's affairs but your own—so let them all go to the devil."
"It's different with Amherst," Lorraine reflected. "He's not smirched so much."
"So Society thinks."
"What do you think?"
"I think it is a question which concerns only the parties interested—so deeply concerns them, indeed, that no one else has any right to an opinion."
"In the abstract, no. But, in the practical, Society's view must be considered—it says the woman's case is very different from the man's—and it may make the husband feel it if he takes her back."
"Not for long—if he has the courage of his conduct, and fights," said Cameron. "However, you are not confronted by any such condition. You've met the situation according to custom. It is up to her now to do the fighting back."