" "That's a great pity," he said.

"You want it for the children's sake, but you don't think of me?" she said, quite forgetting or not having heard that he had said, "_for your sake_ and the children's.

" The question of the possibility of having children had long been a subject of dispute and irritation to her.

His desire to have children she interpreted as a proof he did not prize her beauty.

"Oh, I said: for your sake.