You are not satisfied with your position, and perhaps you,
too, have something of the same feeling that I have. You are your own
mistress and you are a very rich woman, and in whichever direction you
may decide to seek for a larger measure of content, you will not find
me in the Way."
"I am not sentimental," she said coldly. "I know what I want and I am
not afraid to own it. I want to be a Peeress."
"In that respect I am unable to help you," he replied. "And in case I
have not made myself sufficiently clear upon the subject, let me tell
you that I deeply resent the plot by which you endeavoured to foist such
an indignity upon me."
"This is your last word?" she demanded.
"Absolutely!"
"Then I demand that you set me free."
He was a little staggered.
"How on earth can I do that?"
"You can allow me to divorce you."
"And spoil any chance I might have of reentering political life," he
remarked quietly.
"I have no further interest in your political life," she retorted.
He looked at her steadfastly.
"There is another way," he suggested.
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