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He was more amused than
vexed at the resolute stand made by the so-called "leaders" of society
against her, knowing as he did, most thoroughly, how she must conquer
them all in the end. She had been seen nowhere as yet but in the Park,
and Philip had good reason to be contented with the excitement her
presence had created there,--but he was a little astonished at Lady
Winsleigh's being the first to extend a formal welcome to his unknown
bride. Her behavior seemed to him a little suspicious,--for he certainly
could not disguise from himself that she had at one time been most
violently and recklessly in love with him. He recollected one or two
most painful scenes he had had with her, in which he had endeavored to
recall her to a sense of the duty she owed to her husband,--and his face
often flushed with vexation when he thought of her wild and wicked
abandonment of despair, her tears, her passion, and distracted,
dishonoring words. Yet she was the very woman who now came forward in
the very front of society to receive his wife!--he could not quite
understand it.


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