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But in reality travelling interested her even less than he had expected She regarded it (once her clothes were ordered) as , and trying her hand at the fascinating new gaot back to London (where they were to spend a fortnight while he ordered HIS clothes) she no longer concealed the eagerness hich she looked forward to sailing

In London nothing interested her but the theatres and the shops; and she found the theatres less exciting than the Paris cafes chantants where, under the blosso horse-chestnuts of the Cha down from the restaurant terrace on an audience of "cocottes," and having her husband interpret to her as ht suitable for bridal ears

Archer had reverted to all his old inherited ideas about e It was less trouble to conform with the tradition and treat May exactly as all his friends treated their wives than to try to put into practice the theories hich his untra to emancipate a ho had not the di since discovered that May's only use of the liberty she supposed herself to possess would be to lay it on the altar of her wifely adoration Her innate dignity would always keep her froht even coth to take it altogether back if she thought she were doing it for his own good But with a conception of e so uncoht about only by soeous in his own conduct; and the fineness of her feeling for him made that unthinkable Whatever happened, he knew, she would always be loyal, gallant and unresentful; and that pledged him to the practice of the same virtues

All this tended to draw him back into his old habits of mind If her simplicity had been the simplicity of pettiness he would have chafed and rebelled; but since the lines of her character, though so feere on the same fine mould as her face, she became the tutelary divinity of all his old traditions and reverences

Such qualities were scarcely of the kind to enliven foreign travel, though they made her so easy and pleasant a companion; but he saw at once how they would fall into place in their proper setting He had no fear of being oppressed by theo on, as it always had, outside the do s back to his ould never be like entering a stuffy room after a tramp in the open And when they had children the vacant corners in both their lives would be filled