“He’s had too many snubs. We’ve been stupid. That affair of the Jockey Club rankles.”
“You mean that if you had taken him into the Jockey Club ten years ago he wouldn’t want to divorce your sister now.”
“Quite possibly. It would have involved him in other things, given him something to live up to. As it is, he has, as you know, gone in for politics.”
“No, I didn’t know. I never hear him mentioned. I’m very sorry if Claire is unhappy about it.”
“She is, terribly.”
“But she hates him.”
“Not quite that. In any case the disgrace would kill her. She has always been a retiring protected creature. The publicity would be peculiarly awful for her.”
I knew that what he said was true, but he had more to say, and he stammered over it.
“We thought that you, Jane, might do something.”
I was startled. “Do something?”