she said with the tears running down her cheeks souls souls their rail way carriage had been full when the train left but at the first station beyond their only remaining companion a person ate out of a carpet bag � had left hia strewn seat with a bow s eye followed the shiny of his retreating back till it lost itself in the cloud of and cab drivers hanging about the station then she glanced at and caught the some regret in his look they were both sorry to be alone par shouted the guard the train to a sudden of doors a waiter ran along the platform with a tt y of a porter flung a bundle of and band boxes into a third class carriage the guard snapped out a brief i which ted the purely ornamental nature of his first shout and the train swung out of the station the direction of the road had changed and a shaft of sunlight struck across the dusty red velvet seats into s corner did not notice it he had i returned to his de paris and she bad to rise i lower the shade of the farther window against s souls the vast horizon of their leisure such incidents stood out sharply having lowered the shade sat down leaving the length of the carriage between herself and at length he missed her and looked up i moved out of the sun she hastily explained he looked at her curiously the sun was beating on her through the shade very well he said pleasantly adding you don t mind as he drew a case from his pocket it was a refreshing touch the of her spirit with the suggestion that after all if he could � the relief was only momentary her experience of was limited her husband had of the use of tobacco but she knew from that men sometimes smoked to get away from things that a cigar might be the masculine equivalent of darkened windows and a headache after a puff or two returned to his review it was just as she had foreseen he feared to speak as much as she did it was one of the misfortunes of their situation that they were never busy enough to or even to justify the of unpleasant if they avoided a question it was obviously because the question was disagreeable they had unlimited leisure and an of mental energy to devote to any subject si i souls thai presented itself new topics were in fact at a sometimes had of a famine stricken period when there would ba nothing left to talk about and she had already herself out what in the first of their confidences she would have flung to him in a breath their silence therefore might simply mean that they had nothing to say but it was another disadvantage of their position that it allowed infinite opportunity for the of minute had learned to distinguish between real and and under s she now detected a hum of speech to which her own thoughts made breathless answer how could it be otherwise with that thing between them she glanced up at the rack overhead the thing was there in her dressing bag suspended over her head and his he was thinking of it now just as she was they had been thinking of it in ever since they had entered the train while the carriage had held other travellers they had her from his thoughts but now that he and she were alone she knew exactly what was passing through his mind she could almost hear him asking himself what he should say to her the thing had come that morning brought up to her n an innocent looking envelope with the rest of their souls letters as they were leaving the hotel at as she tore it open she and were laughing over some of the local guide they had been driven of late to make the most of such of travel even when she had unfolded the document she took it for some business paper sent abroad for her signature and her eye travelled over the curly ft in of the until a word arrested her � divorce there it stood an barrier between her name and hers she had been prepared for it of course as healthy people are said to be prepared for death in the sense f knowing it must come without in the least expecting that it will she had known from the first that meant to divorce her � but what did it matter nothing mattered in those first days of supreme but the fact that she was free and not bo much she had begun to be aware that freedom had released her from as that it had given her to this discovery had not been agreeable to her self esteem she had preferred to think that had himself embodied all her reasons for leaving him and those he represented had seemed enough to stand in no need of yet she had not left him till she met it was her love for that had made life with i souls so poor and a business if she had never from the regarded her aa a full of her claims upon life she had at least for a number of years accepted it as a compensation � she had made it do existence in the mansion in fifth avenue � with mrs senior commanding the approaches from the second story front windows � had been reduced to a series of purely acts the moral atmosphere of the interior was as carefully and as the house itself mrs senior dreaded ideas as much as a draught in her back prudent people liked an even temperature and to do anything unexpected was as foolish as going out in the rain one of the chief advantages of being rich was that 