'Secret Fatuity'

He had meant to have a word alone with madame olenska. But now, as he walked home from missus mingotts, he was conscious of a growing distaste for hatlay before him. He saw the matter in a new light, and his part in it seemed singularly diminished. It was that which, with a secret fatuity, he had watched missus thorley rushworth play toward a fond and unperceiving husband. The best fiction combined with the after dinner talk of his elders had long since initiated him into every detail of its code. His own fancy inclined to japan. At any rate, she would understand at once that wherever she went,