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[quote=Anonymous]One day I received an urgent message from her and fortunately went to see her at once. When I was shown into the room Mrs. Tower rose from her chair and came towards me with the stealthy swiftness of a leopard stalking his prey. I saw that she was excited.

"Jane (OLDER WOMAN) and Gilbert (HUSBAND 27 YEARS HER JUNIOR) have separated," she said.

"Not really? Well, you were right after all."

Mrs. Tower looked at me with an expression I could not understand.

"Poor Jane," I muttered.

"Poor Jane!" she repeated, but in tones of such derision that I was dumbfounded.

She found some difficulty in telling me exactly what had occurred.

Gilbert had left her a moment before she leaped to the telephone to summon me. When he entered the room, pale and distraught, she saw at once that something terrible had happened. She knew what he was going to say before he said it.

"Marion, Jane has left me."

She gave him a little smile and took his hand.

"I knew you`d behave like a gentleman. It would have been dreadful for her for people to think that you had left her."

"I`ve come to you because I knew I could count on your sympathy."

"Oh, I don`t blame you, Gilbert," said Mrs. Tower, very kindly. "It was bound to happen."

He sighed.

"I suppose so. I couldn`t hope to keep her always. She was too wonderful and I`m a perfectly commonplace fellow."

Mrs. Tower patted his hand. He was really behaving beautifully.

"And what is going to happen now?"

"Well, she`s going to divorce me."

"Jane always said she`d put no obstacle in your way if ever you wanted to marry a girl."

"You don`t think it`s likely I should ever be willing to marry anyone else after being Jane`s husband," he answered.

Mrs. Tower was puzzled.

"Of course you mean that you`ve left Jane."

"I? That`s the last thing I should ever do."

"Then why is she divorcing you?"

"She`s going to marry Sir Reginald Frobisher as soon as the decree is made absolute."

Mrs. Tower positively screamed. Then she felt so faint that she had to get her smelling salts.

"After all you`ve done for her?"

"I`ve done nothing for her."

"Do you mean to say you`re going to allow yourself to be made use of like that?"

"We arranged before we married that if either of us wanted his liberty the other should put no hindrance in the way."

"But that was done on your account. Because you were twenty-seven years younger than she was."

"Well, it`s come in very useful for her," he answered bitterly.

Mrs. Tower expostulated, argued, and reasoned; but Gilbert insisted that no rules applied to Jane, and he must do exactly what she wanted. He left Mrs. Tower prostrate. It relieved her a good deal to give me a full account of this interview. It pleased her to see that I was as surprised as herself, and if I was not so indignant with Jane as she was she ascribed that to the criminal lack of morality incident to my sex. She was still in a state of extreme agitation when the door was opened and the butler showed in - Jane herself. She was dressed in black and white as no doubt befitted her slightly ambiguous position, but in a dress so original and fantastic, in a hat so striking, that I positively gasped at the sight of her. But she was as ever bland and collected. She came forward to kiss Mrs. Tower, but Mrs. Tower withdrew herself with icy dignity.

"Gilbert has been here," she said.

"Yes, I know," smiled Jane. "I told him to come and see you. I`m going to Paris to-night and I want you to be very kind to him while I am away. I`m afraid just at first he`ll be rather lonely and I shall feel more comfortable if I can count on your keeping an eye on him."

Mrs. Tower clasped her hands.

"Gilbert has just told me something that I can hardly bring myself to believe. He tells me that you`re going to divorce him to marry Reginald Frobisher."

"Don`t you remember, before I married Gilbert." said you advised me to marry a man of my own age. The admiral is fifty-three."

"But, Jane, you owe everything to Gilbert," said Mrs. Tower indignantly. "You wouldn`t exist without him. Without him to design your clothes, you`ll be nothing."

"Oh, he`s promised to go on designing my clothes," Jane answered blandly.

"No woman could want a better husband. He`s always been kindness itself to you."

"Oh, I know he`s been sweet."

"How can you be so heartless?"

"But I was never in love with Gilbert," said Jane. "I always told him that. I`m beginning to feel the need of the companionship of a man of my own age. I think I`ve probably been married to Gilbert long enough. The young have no conversation."[/quote]

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