"Electra?"
"Yes. She asked me plainly whether he married you."
"She asked you! How could she?"
"She did it without preamble. It was really rather magnificent."
"Did you answer without preamble?"
"I think so. At all events, it contented her. I said, 'yes,'—not much more, if anything."
There was a long silence, and he felt her determination to remain outside the issue, even to the extent of denying herself the further news he brought. When that became apparent, he spoke again, rather lightly:—
"She took my assurance without question. She said she should know what to do."
"What will she do?"
"The simplest thing possible—make over Tom's money to you. She doesn't consider, apparently, whether you are entitled to the whole of it, any more than she had previously guessed that, if your claim were just, you could have pushed it without her concurrence. She is a very intemperate person."