"No," he replied calmly, but with firm resolution in his tone. "I shall give you no more until your allowance is due."
She looked up, quite a furious expression on her lovely face.
"Not give it me! Why, what do you suppose I married you for?"
"Adela!" came his reproof, almost whispered.
"I would not have taken you but for your money; you know that. They promised me at home that I should have unlimited command of it; and I will."
"You have had unlimited command," he observed, and there was no irritation suffered to appear in his tone, whatever may have been his inward pain. "It is for your own sake I must discontinue to supply it."
"You are intelligible!" was her scornful rejoinder: for, in good truth, this refusal was making havoc of her temper.
"All that you can need in every way shall be yours, Adela. Purchase what you like, order what you like; I will pay the bills without a murmur. But I will not give you money to waste, as you have latterly wasted it, at Lady Sanely's."
She rose from her seat, pale with anger. "First Charles Cleveland, then Lady Sanely: what else am I to be lectured upon? How dare you presume to interfere with my pursuits?"
"I should ill be fulfilling my duty to you, or my love either, Adela, what is left of it, if I did not interfere."