She winced when first she heard the preparation-room door open and Capes came down the laboratory; but when at last he reached her she was self-possessed. That there would eventually be a lover Ruth knew; and she waited his appearance upon the scene, waited with an impatience which was both personal and literary. “Sit down,” he said, and perused—“perused” is the word for it—for some moments. So he obeyed Everett and married Mary, and kept the woman as his mistress. Wood had the advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special recommendation in female eyes. ’ Melusine took refuge in defiance. G'night, kids.
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