I have only to find the best way out of the difficult position in which she has placed me.

And I shall find it," he said to himself, frowning more and more.

" I'm not the first nor the last.

" And to say nothing of historical instances dating from the "Fair Helen" of Menelaus, recently revived in the memory of all, a whole list of contemporary examples of husbands with unfaithful wives in the highest society rose before Alexey Alexandrovitch's imagination.

" Daryalov, Poltavsky, Prince Karibanov, Count Paskudin, Dram....