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"All I'm thinking of is whether it is my duty to hunt her
up and once more convince myself that she is heartless vanity personified,
and utterly indifferent to me personally, as I am to her."
"Suppose you do go to her and find that through pique, because you made
the move for separation yourself, she wants to try it over, or to get the
boys again--she's got a mint of money. Do you know just how much she has?"
"I do not, and I never did," he replied. "Her funds never in any part were
in my hands. I felt capable of making all I needed myself, and I have. I
earn as much as it is right I should have; but she'd scorn my plan for
life and what satisfies me; and she'd think the boys disgraced, living as
they are."
"James, was there an hour, even in your honeymoon, when Nellie forgot
herself and was a lovable woman?"
"It is painful to recall, but yes! Yes indeed!" he answered. "Never did a
man marry with higher hope!"
"Then what----?" marvelled Mrs. Winslow.
"Primarily, her mother, then her society friends, then the power of her
money," he answered.


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