'Are you really happier, Audrey--really and truly, my darling?'

'Oh, Michael, what a question! Am I not your wife? Is not that answer enough? Do you think I would change places with any other woman in the world, or even with my old self?'

And as he looked at her bright face he knew that she was speaking the truth, and that Audrey Burnett so loved and reverenced her husband that she was likely to be a happier woman than Audrey Ross had been.

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