Is It Ay Worthwhile, Dear?

There is something i have got to tell you about myself. She sat silent, without a movement or a tremor of her lashes. Her face had a curious tranquillity of expression that seemed drawn from some secret inner source. Archer checked the conventional phrases of self accusal that were crowding to his lips. But at the same time, his wife raised her hand as if to silence him. As she did so, the gas light struck on the gold of her wedding ring.