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Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circu people's lots cos happen to them This tendency he had felt fro wos were bound to happen, no matter how much she shrank fro fact was her having lived in an atmosphere so thick with drama that her own tendency to provoke it had apparently passed unperceived It was precisely the odd absence of surprise in her that gave hi been plucked out of a very ave the ainst

Archer had left her with the conviction that Count Olenski's accusation was not unfounded The ured in his wife's past as "the secretary" had probably not been unrewarded for his share in her escape The conditions fro of, past believing: she was young, she was frightened, she was desperate--what rateful to her rescuer? The pity was that her gratitude put her, in the law's eyes and the world's, on a par with her abominable husband Archer had made her understand this, as he was bound to do; he had also made her understand that sier charity she had apparently counted, was precisely the place where she could least hope for indulgence

To have to ned acceptance of it--had been intolerably painful to his of jealousy and pity, as if her du yet endearing her He was glad it was to him she had revealed her secret, rather than to the cold scrutiny of Mr Letterblair, or the eaze of her family He immediately took it upon hiiven up her idea of seeking a divorce, basing her decision on the fact that she had understood the uselessness of the proceeding; and with infinite relief they had all turned their eyes from the "unpleasantness" she had spared thee it," Mrs Welland had said proudly of her future son-in-law; and old Mrs Mingott, who had suratulated hioose! I told herto pass herself off as Ellen Mingott and an old maid, when she has the luck to be a married woman and a Countess!"