If you will send for me I will go to you instantly, and after one
word from you to the desired effect, you will find that there will
be no recurrence by me to a subject so hateful. As I have done,
and am doing what I think to be right, I cannot stultify myself by
saying that I think I have been wrong.

Yours always, dearest Emily,

With the most thorough love,

Louis Trevelyan.'

This letter he himself put on his wife's dressing-room table, and
then he went out to his club.




CHAPTER VI

SHEWING HOW RECONCILIATION WAS MADE


'Look at that,' said Mrs Trevelyan, when her sister came into her
room about an hour before dinnertime. Nora read the letter, and
then asked her sister what she meant to do. 'I have written to
Mrs Peacock. I don't know what else I can do. It is very hard upon
you that you should have been kept at home. But I don't suppose Mr
Glascock would have been at Mrs Peacock's.'