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Lady Altamont shook her husband passionately by the shoulder.
"Can you fully understand what has happened?" she asked. "Is that drink-soddened brain of yours in a fit state to comprehend? Oh, if you were only a man! It seemed to me to be a good thing to marry you--I thought with your old name and my brain we could have accomplished great things. But from the very first you have been a drag on me. I have had to watch you when my whole attention was needed for more important matters. And, after all, this is the result."