efinitely abandons Deb, and with
prayers to God resolves never to do the like again. Mrs. Pepys is
not satisfied, however, till she makes her husband write a letter
to Deb, telling her that she is little better than a whore, and
that he hates her, though Deb is spared this, not by any
stratagem of Pepys, but by the considerateness of the friend to
whom the letter was entrusted for delivery. Moreover, Mrs. Pepys
arranges with her husband that, in future, whenever he goes
abroad he shall be accompanied everywhere by his clerk. We see
that Mrs. Pepys plays with what appears to be triumphant skill
and success the part of the jealous and avenging wife, and digs
her little French heels remorselessly into her prostrate husband
and her rival. Unfortunately, we do not know what the final
outcome was, for a little later, owing to trouble with his
eyesight, Pepys was compelled to bring his Diary to an end. It is
evident, however, when we survey the whole of this perhaps
typical episode, that neither husband nor wife were in the
slightest degree prepared for the commonplace position into which
they were thrown; that each of them appears in a painful,
undignified, and humiliating light; that as a result of it the
husband acquires almost a genuine and strong affection for the
girl who is the cause of the quarrel; and finally that, even
though he is compelled, for the time at all events, to yield to
his wife, he remains at the end exactly what he was at the
beginning. Nor had husband or wife the very slightest wish to
leave each other; the bond of marriage remained firm, but it had
been degraded by insincerity on one side and the jealous endeavor
on the other to secure fidelity by compulsion.

Apart altogether, however, from the question of its effectiveness, or even
of the misery that it causes to all concerned, it is evident that jealousy
is incompatible with all the tendencies of civilization. We have seen that
a certain degree of variation is involved in the sexual relationship, as
in all other relationships, and unless we are to continue to perpetuate
many evils and injustices, that fact has to be faced and recognized. We
have also seen that the line of our advance involves a constant increase
in moral responsibility and self-government, and that, in its turn,
implies not only a high degree of sincerity but also the recogni