Here's a short story:

CHAPTER II. THE ULTIMATUM 

News of the affair at Tavora reached Sir Terence O'Moy, the Adjutant-General at Lisbon, about a week later in dispatches from headquarters. These informed him that in the course of the humble apology and explanation of the regrettable occurrence offered by the Colonel of the 8th Dragoons in person to the Mother Abbess, it had transpired that Lieutenant Butler had left the convent alive, but that nevertheless he continued absent from his regiment. 

Those dispatches contained other unpleasant matters of a totally different nature, with which Sir Terence must proceed to deal at once; but their gravity was completely outweighed in the adjutant's mind by this deplorable affair of Lieutenant Butler's. Without wishing to convey an impression that the blunt and downright O'Moy was gifted with any undue measure of shrewdness, it must nevertheless be said that he was quick to perceive what fresh thorns the occurrence was likely to throw in a path that was already thorny enough in all conscience, what a semblance of justification it must give to the hostility of the intriguers on the Council of Regency, what a formidable weapon it must place in the hands of Principal Souza and his partisans. In itself this was enough to trouble a man in O'Moy's position. But there was more. Lieutenant Butler happened to be his brother-in-law, own brother to O'Moy's lovely, frivolous wife. Irresponsibility ran strongly in that branch of the Butler family. 

For the sake of the young wife whom he loved with a passionate and fearful jealousy such as is not uncommon in a man of O'Moy's temperament when at his age--he was approaching his forty-sixth birthday--he marries a girl of half his years, the adjutant had pulled his brother-in-law out of many a difficulty; shielded him on many an occasion from the proper consequences of his incurable rashness.  (End of story)

Provide your best guess for the following question. Give ONLY the guess, no other words or explanation.

For example:

Guess: <most likely guess, as short as possible; not a complete sentence, just the guess!>

Here are a few examples of questions and answers:

Question: What ran powerfully through a branch of the Butler family?
Guess: Irresponsibility

Question: Where was the affair that reached O'Moy?
Guess: Tavora

Question: What was his title?
Guess: the Adjutant-General at Lisbon

Question: How did he get wind of the affair?
Guess: Dispatches

Question: From where?
Guess: Headquarters

Question: Who was missing from his regiment?
Guess: Lieutenant Butler

Question: Where had he departed, alive?
Guess: the convent

Question: What else was in those dispatches that were about something else?
Guess: Other unpleasant matters

Question: Was he going to handle them immediately?
Guess: Yes

Question: What struck his as the worst part of it all?
Guess: He was his brother-in-law

Question: How was O'Moy's wife described?
Guess: lovely and frivolous

Now answer the following question in the same format.

Question: Did he love her?

Yes