It is in the second reading of their hearts that the majority of men
find the most interesting literature.
Before the Baroness had been three months his wife, the long years of
martyrdom he had endured as the husband of Mabel's mother seemed like
a nightmare dream to Judge Lawrence; and all of life, hope and
happiness was embodied in the woman who ruled his destiny with a
hypnotic sway no one could dispute, yet a woman whose heart still
throbbed with a stubborn and lawless passion for the man who called
her husband father.