"
"Ah, yes; the morning of that day was the last on which I spoke to
her. It was then she left me."
"I am going to dine with Lord Brentford to-morrow, and I dare say she
will be there."
"Yes;--she is in town. I saw her yesterday in her father's carriage.
I think that she had no cause to leave me."
"Of course I cannot say anything about that."
"I think she had no cause to leave me." Phineas as he heard this
could not but remember all that Lady Laura had told himself, and
thought that no woman had ever had a better reason for leaving her
husband. "There were things I did not like, and I said so."
"I suppose that is generally the way," replied Phineas.
"But surely a wife should listen to a word of caution from her
husband."
"I fancy they never like it," said Phineas.
"But are we all of us to have all that we like? I have not found it
so. Or would it be good for us if we had?" Then he paused; but as
Phineas had no further remark to make, he continued speaking after
they had walked about a third of the length of the hall. "It is not
of my own comfort I am thinking now so much as of her name and her
future conduct. Of course it will in every sense be best for her that
she should come back to her husband's roof."
"Well; yes;--perhaps it would," said Phineas.
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