"Oh, we needn't, needn't we? And there never was anything wrong, I suppose? I'm such a bad wife, am I? Other men have bad wives too."
"Do you attach any particular meaning to that?" he asked coldly, but rather uneasily.
"Do I attach——? Oh, what an idiot you are! You to come and lecture me as if I was a child! I may be anything you like, but I've never been what your wife was, John Fanshaw."
He turned on her quickly.
"What do you mean by that?"
"That's my affair."
"No, it isn't. You've dared to hint——"
"Oh, I hint nothing I don't know!"
"You shall give me an explanation of those words. I insist upon that."
"You'd better not," she laughed maliciously.