ed. There is precisely the same
thing going on between him and Everett; only Everett is a great deal
rougher to him than you are likely to be. He never will let Everett
know whether he is to regard himself as a rich man or a poor man."

"He gives him an allowance."

"Because he cannot help himself. To you he does not do even as much
as that, because he can help himself. I have chosen to leave it to
him and he has done nothing. But this is not quite fair, and he must
be told so. I don't think he could be told in more dutiful language."

Emily did not like the idea of telling her father anything which he
might not like to hear; but her husband's behests were to her in
these, her early married days, quite imperative.

CHAPTER XXVI

The End of the Honeymoon

Mrs. Lopez had begged her father to address his reply to her at
Florence, where,--as she explained to him,--they expected to find
themselves within a fortnight from the date of her writing. They
had reached the lake about the end of November, when the weather
had still been fine, but they intended to pass the winter months
of December and January within the warmth of the cities. That
intervening fortnight was to her a period of painful anticipation.
She feared to see her father's handwriting, feeling almost sure that
he would be bitterly angry with her. During this time her husband
frequently spoke to her about the letter,--about her own letter and
her father's expected reply. It was necessary that she should learn
her lesson, and she could only do so by having the subject of money
made familiar to her ears. It was not a part of his plan to tell her
anything of the means by which he hoped to make himself a wealthy
man. The less she knew of that the better. But the fact that her
father absolutely owed to him a large amount of money as her fortune
could not be made too clear to her. He was very desirous to do this
in such a manner as not to make her think that he was accusing
her,--or that he would accuse her if the money were not forthcoming.
But she must learn the fact, and must be imbued with the conviction
that her husband would be the most ill-treated of men unless the
money were forthcoming. "I am a little nervous about it too," said
he, alluding to the expected letter;--"not so much as to the money
itself, though that is important; but as to his conduct. If he
chooses simply to ignore us after our marriage he will be behaving
very badly." She had no