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Edith saw that her friend was comfortably settled, and withdrew with Kenneth into the adjoining room, which was the library, or as she preferred to call it, the book-room.
"Don't you think some one should write definitely to her friends about how she is situated with her husband, and tell them how hopeless a scoundrel he is," said Edith. "I am more and more convinced that he intends her to go on the stage, and thinks there is no use in his returning till her strength and her voice have come back. And in this tour they are taking, you may be sure he is visiting the theatres and getting acquainted with managers and directors of opera companies, and preparing them for her début. He went provided with photographs. You recollect the very fine one he had taken and coloured before he left, that your cousin got surreptitiously copied for himself. She would succeed, I do not doubt, if she gets back her voice, and he would live in idleness and vice on her earnings."