seemed to mean as much to her as it had to him?

Being kin to primitive man, Bud could only bellow
rage when he should have analyzed calmly the situ-
ation. He should have seen that Marie too had
cabin fever, induced by changing too suddenly from
carefree girlhood to the ills and irks of wifehood
and motherhood. He should have known that she
had been for two months wholly dedicated to the
small physical wants of their baby, and that if his
nerves were fraying with watching that incessant
servitude, her own must be close to the snapping
point; had snapped, when dusk did not bring him
home repentant.

But he did not know, and so he blamed Marie
bitterly for the wreck of their home, and he flung
down all his worldly goods before her, and marched
off feeling self-consciously proud of his martyrdom.
It soothed him paradoxically to tell himself that
he was "cleaned"; that Marie had ruined him ab-
solutely, and that he was just ten dollars and a decent
suit or two of clothes better off than a tramp. He
was tempted to go back and send the ten dollars after
the rest of the fifteen hundred, but good sense pre-

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