"If it's done and can't be undone," he said cheerfully, "I
don't see that advice is needed."

"But--you don't understand." She seemed to be casting about
for words. "As I said, it was last fall--here. In Saint X
there was a man--and he and I--we'd cared for each other ever
since we were children. And then he went away to college. He
did several things father didn't like. You know how older people
are--they don't make allowances. And though father's the
gentlest, best--at any rate, he turned against Jack, and--"

Scarborough abruptly went to the window and stood with his back
to her.

After a pause Pauline said, in a rush, "And he came here last
fall and we got married."

There was a long silence.

"It was DREADFUL, wasn't it?" she said in the tone of one who
has just made a shocking discovery.

Scarborough did not answer.

"I never realized till this minute," she went on after a while.
"Not that I'm sorry or that I don't--don't CARE--just as I
always did. But somehow, telling it out loud to some one else
has made me see it in a different light. It didn't seem like
treachery to them--to father and mother--then. It hasn't seemed