Pleasure Reading Part 3

After some weeks in the Far East, Kitty met Charles Townsend who was an assistant colonial secretary. He was tall and handsome. They began to have an sexual affair. After two years, Walter observed Kitty and Charles during an assignation and the lovers had been discovered and reassured themselves that Walter wuold not intervened in the matter. Charles promised Kitty that, come what may, he would standed by her. Aware that the cuckolded Walter was his administrative inferior, Charles felt confident that the bacteriologist would avoid scandal to protect his career and reputation. Kitty, who had never felt real affection for her husband grasped that  he was fully awared of her infidelity  and she began to despise his apparent cowardice. She discerned an ominous change in his behavior.