— 18 —“You have not been very true to me, Susan. You frequently say you are quite estranged from your husband, yet you, as he claims—tell him everything—even to the letters you have just exchanged with Sir John Curle.”
“I like to be as honest as I can,” pleaded Susan ingenuously. “I feel so sorry for Martin—though he is unkind to me and I wish I had never married him. But never mind about that, Olivia; what did he say about the divorce? You look so tired and pale!”
“Mr. Rue is a most difficult man,” said Mrs. Sacret, carefully concealing any hint of the failure she believed to be decisive, for she was convinced that the young banker would not divorce his wife nor give her cause to divorce him. “I shall have to be careful. But I have good hopes that he will be reasonable in the end.”
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