" I cannot be unhappy, but neither she nor he ought to be happy.

" The feeling of jealousy, which had tortured him during the period of uncertainty, had passed away at the instant when the tooth had been with agony extracted by his wife's words.

But that feeling had been replaced by another, the desire, not merely that she should not be triumphant, but that she should get due punishment for her crime.

He did not acknowledge this feeling, but at the bottom of his heart he longed for her to suffer for having destroyed his peace of mind--his honor.