Chapter VIII: Act II: THE SEPARATION.--The Maitland homestead.--Anastasia's

doubts.--A warm welcome and its icy reception.--Forebodings and doubts.--Father and son.--Searching questions.--A domestic storm and a parent's command.--A foiled villain's wrath.--Enlisting for the war.--The collapse of the cowards.--"It's no use, 'Dolphy, the jig's up!"--Hilda's sympathy and Adrienne's silent despair.--The result of impulse.--The father pleads for his son.--Anastasia and Dollerclutch.--Coriolanus comes to grief.--Good and bad news.--Husband and wife.--Reginald demands an explanation.--A hand without a heart.--The separation.--A new recruit.--Too late; the roll is signed.--TABLEAU.