general feelings on such a subject, are just what a husband must
desire--Indeed, I am quite sure that the possibility of anything
wrong has never entered into her head. But it is the very purity
of her innocence which makes the danger. He is a bad man, and I
would just say a word to her, if I were you, to make her understand
that his coming to her of a morning is not desirable. Upon my
word, I believe there is nothing he likes so much as going about
and making mischief between men and their wives.'

Thus she delivered herself; and Louis Trevelyan, though he was
sore and angry, could not but feel that she had taken the part of
a friend. All that she had said had been true; all that she had
said to him he had said to himself more than once. He too hated
the man. He believed him to be a snake in the grass. But it was
intolerably bitter to him that he should be warned about his wife's
conduct by any living human being; that he, to whom the world had
been so full of good fortune, that he, who had in truth taught
himself to think that he deserved so much good fortune, should be
made the subject of care on behalf of his friend, because of danger
between himself and his wife! On the spur of the moment he did not
know what answer to make. 'He is not a man whom I like myself,' he
said.

'Just be careful, Louis, that is all,' said Lady Milborough, and
then she was gone.

To be cautioned about his wife's conduct cannot be pleasant to
any man, and it was very unpleasant to Louis Trevelyan. He, too,
had been asked a question about Sir Marmaduke's expected visit to
England after the ladies had left the room. All the town had heard