And when she sat, very silent, looking into the fire: "You see, you
think it absurd yourself."
"Hardly absurd," she roused herself to look up at him. "If it is, it's
the sort of splendid absurdity I am proud of. I was wondering what
Natalie would say."
"I don't believe it lies between a man and his wife. It's between him
and his God."
He was rather ashamed of that, however, and soon after he went away.