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I think that was the last thing he expected. After a moment he said:
"Then you have broken your marriage vows--is that it?"
"Yes, if you call it so."
"Call it so? Call it so? Good heavens, what do _you_ call it?"
I did not reply, and after another moment he said:
"But perhaps you wish me to understand that this man whom I was so
foolish as to invite to my house abused my hospitality and betrayed my
wife. Is that what you mean?"
"No," I said. "He observed the laws of hospitality much better than you
did, and if I am betrayed I betrayed myself."
I shall never forget the look with which my husband received this
confession. He drew himself up with the air of an injured man and said:
"What? You mean that you yourself . . . deliberately . . . Good God!"
He stopped for a moment and then said with a rush:
"I suppose you've not forgotten what happened at the time of our
marriage . . . your resistance and the ridiculous compact I submitted
to? Why did I submit? Because I thought your innocence, your
convent-bred ideas, and your ignorance of the first conditions of
matrimony.


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