Chapter 14

I said, “I’m not being silly--we aren’t engaged exactly, but I’m going to wait until he comes back, and then we may be.” She said: “You must be mad. You couldn’t very well be engaged. I don’t believe he ever bothered to divorce his wife in Paris.” I felt a little sick. I am calm about it now, especially since I have had his letter. But--he had never mentioned a wife in Paris. Now I understand that he might very well have acquired one in his youth. A great many young men make mistaken early marriages. I read some st…